This is an analysis of the poem The Ages Of Man 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: XabbccddaacceeffcceeffXXccbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101010110 11011101010101 1100101110011 11111111110101 110101011111 01010101011100 011111010101 11100111011111 011111011111 11100101011101 101111011111 01010101111101 110111010101 11010101110101 110111111101 10111101011111 111101010111 110111111111011 1011101010001 11110101101101 111111010111 01111101011100 111101011101 11101101010011000 10111110001101 111111010100101 110101111100 001111010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1598
- Average number of words per stanza: 323
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (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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- summary of The Ages Of Man;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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