This is an analysis of the poem When The Sword Of Sixty Comes Nigh His Head that begins with:
When the sword of sixty comes nigh his head
give a man no wine, for he is drunk with years....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcb XXXdbb eX dafXca fXaebX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,2,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101101 10111110100 110101101 101110 010010101001 0011101110 010011011 1010101011011 0110101 101011001010 1110011100 1101011001 01001000101 11101001101010 011100101010 101101 0101001010 1000101101 111110101 11101001101001 1101010 111001 10101101001 001010010 111101101011 1011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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