This is an analysis of the poem The Bill Of The Ages that begins with:
He shall live to the end of this mad old world, he has lived since the world began,
He never has done any good for himself, but was good to every... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbb ddbb eebb ffbb ffbb aabb eebbXbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010011111110101 1101110010111001001 1101110010111111100 11111111111010101 11001010011111111 1101100101100001 111010011110011011 1111011011011111 111001101110100101 11100100100111101011 111111100110101001 1101011111111101 111011011011111011011 1110110110110011101 10100100101101100101 10101010101110100101 101010010111010111 11010001010100111 011010010111111111 0110100101111101 1011011010110100111 101111111110100101 10100101110111101010 101111110111100111 1001010101111111011 11101101111100101 101001011011111101 1110010010111111101 10101011111100111 1100111010011101 11101111100111111110 11101011011100101 1101001010101101 101101101011101101 11011001110101110 011011010110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 337
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 74 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 16
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, good, never, has, or, you, of, to, s, all, man, can, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, if are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word bill at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Bill Of The Ages;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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