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

I had a vision of mankind to be:
I saw no grated windows, heard no roar... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc XdeXff fgfgaX eXedee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101001100 1111010111 0101011111 0101010111 1001001011 1001000100 0101010101 1101001101 0101101101 01010001110 1101010101 11001111100 0101110101 1101011101 0111011111 11011111001 1111111100 0101110100 1101010001 1101000111 11110011111 1101010101 0101110100 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of, no, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, pluck are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Age Of Good;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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