This is an analysis of the poem While Yet We May that begins with:
Ancient, wrinkled dames and jealous -
They whom joyless Age downcasts -... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaaX ababab cbcbcb cdcdcd ebXbeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110 1110110 10111010 1111111 10101011 1111111 100101010 1111111 11101010 1110101 11111111 1111111 10111010 1010111 1110110 1110111 11101010 1001101 11111110 1011111 11101010 1011101 111011010 1110011 01101010 1010111 00011011 1010101 10101010 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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