This is an analysis of the poem Old Age. (Sonnet Iv.) that begins with:
The course of my long life hath reached at last,
In fragile bark o'er a tempestuous sea,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXacdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101111111 010110011001 0101011100 0101010001 00101001111 1111010101 1101011100 00010111101 0101101101 1111111101 1111110001 1011010111 0111000101 110001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 599
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, and are repeated.
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- summary of Old Age. (Sonnet Iv.);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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