This is an analysis of the poem Age And Youth that begins with:
WE have left our youth behind:
Earth is in its baby years: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc dede ababXeded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 1000100 1010101 1011111 1111101 1011001 1010111 1011101 1110101 0111111 1110101 0111111 1110111 11111010 1111101 10101010 1011101 1011101 0110011 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; , of, and are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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