This is an analysis of the poem The Feast Of Age that begins with:

SEE where the light streams over Connla’s fountain
Starward aspire! ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXcdcdeaeafgfgdfdfchghafafbibicecedcdcgjgjbabakjkjgagaXfXflblbglgl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 68,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101010 1001 01010101010 10110 10011010101 0101 10010101001 1011 100100100111 0101 1111000101 0101 1110010011 0111 11110011101 1100 0101010111 1001 1011010101 0101 11010110001 1011 1101010101 0101 1101010001 1101 1001010101 1101 1001011011 1111 1101011101 1101 10110101110 1101 11110111010 0111 100101011101 1000 1011010111 1101 1111010100 1001 01011101111 0001 10110010111 1111 1001010101 0111 1100010001 1111 1111000101 01001 1101100101 0111 1001110101 0101 100111011000 1101 10010100010 1101 1001010111 0111 1101010101 0101 1011010101 1100 0101111101 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2459
  • Average number of words per stanza: 380
  • Amount of lines: 68
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; , and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of The Feast Of Age;
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