This is an analysis of the poem Littell's Living Age that begins with:
We did not fear them once — the dull, gray mornings
No cheerless burden on our spirits laid;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc adedaaaa fgfgahih ajajkckcXigigeheh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110101110 1101011101 01110011110 1101000101 01011101010 0101011111 101101101110 1001110101 111011111110 1101111101 01111101010 0101011011 11010101010 0111010101 01111101010 1111011101 0011111110 1101010101 11011101110 0111010111 11110001010 1001010011 11110001010 0101110101 01111101110 1110010011 010111001010 1111000101 11010111110 01110101011 01010111010 0111011011 01110100011 1001110101 11011101111 0111001101 10110111010 11011101011 10110101010 1001011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 359
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, their are repeated.
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