How No Age Is Content by Henry Howard: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem How No Age Is Content that begins with:

LAID in my quiet bed, in study as I were,
I saw within my troubled head a heap of thoughts appear. ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbccXXaaccddeeccddeeXXccbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101010110 11011101010101 1100101110011 11111111110101 110101011111 01010101011100 011111010110 11100111011111 011111011111 11100101011101 101111011111 01010101111101 110111010101 11010101110101 110111111101 10111101011111 111101010111 110111111111011 1111101010001 11110101101101 111111010111 01111101011100 111101011101 1110110101001100 1011111111101 111111010100101 110101111100 00111101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1616
  • Average number of words per stanza: 327
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, in, man, to, boy, and, of, that are repeated.

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