This is an analysis of the poem 1866 -- Addressed To The Old Year that begins with:
Art thou not glad to close
Thy wearied eyes, O saddest child of Time,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaab bccb adda edde cbbc dXdd fggf ceec hiih
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111101 1101110101 11111100101 1101010101 0101001 0101011111 1111011111 1101101101 101111 1111111101 01010111001 1101010001 111111 1101111111 0101010011 1101101101 1101001 0011110011 10111111001 1111010111 110101 101100110010 0011100101 1111011100 110101 1111111101 1111111101 0101111101 010101 1101111111 1001011101 11110010101 010101 0111010111 1101000101 1100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; thy, him, their, of are repeated.
The author used the same word him at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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