This is an analysis of the poem My Lost Youth that begins with:
Often I think of the beautiful town
That is seated by the sea;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaabcdDX eeeXecdDX fbffbcdDX gdgXdcdDX bhbbhcdDX eeeeecdDX iaiiacdDX jbjjbcdDX iaiiacdDX gagXacdDX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001001 1010101 10011111 010101111 1111101 10100111 01011001 10100010 1010111110 11101001001 110101 010010101 1101001000 011101 10100111 0101101 10100010 1010111110 10100110101 1011101 110100101 10101100001 1010001 10101101 0101101 10100010 1010111110 1010010101 1010101 011100101 01101010110 1010111 10100111 1011001 10100010 1010111110 1010011101 10101001 10110111 01110000101 110101 10101101 111001 10100010 1010111110 111010101 0110101 1010110101 1100101101 010101 10101111 0101101 10100010 1010111110 1010011111 010111 011010001 1011100101 110111 10101101 1110101 10100010 1010111110 111011111 1111101 111110111 110100001 1010101 10101101 1101101 10100010 1010111110 101110111 11100111 101010111 101110001111 1110111 11001001 11011001 10100010 1010111110 11011111 10110111 11110101 1010100110 1111101 10111001 01101001 10100010 1010111110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, there, are are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word thoughts at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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