This is an analysis of the poem The Prime Of Life that begins with:
OH, the strength of the toil of those twenty years, with father, and master, and men!
And the clearer brain of the business man, who has held his... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd aaaa bbaa eebb dddd ffgg ffbb hhbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010110001011011 10101001011110111 1010010010110100101 01011010011100101 11111111111111011 11001011010100101 11001001111110101 11101001011111101 10111101010011111 11101011110001101 11110010111100111 1111111101110110101 11011001011110101 1111001011110101 1111111111111111 1111001011100101 1111011111110100101 1110011011110100111 0111011010110111 1110010011011100101 11011010011101110 010110010111110101 111111110111111001 101011101010110111 10111101101011111 111010111111101101 11101011011011101 11001111111110101 11001111011110101 11101101010101010 110010110111111111 101011111011100101 111110110011001011 110010010111111001 110010110110101001 11101111111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 73 (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; and, of, i, me, they, sowed, s, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, they, for are repeated.
The poet repeated the same words son, life at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Prime Of Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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