This is an analysis of the poem Youth And Age. (Sonnet Iii.) that begins with:
Oh give me back the days when loose and free
To my blind passion were the curb and rein,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcXdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011111 0111000111 11110110101 0111010100 1111011101 1101111101 11011000111 0111111111 00011100110 1011010101 01111111010 1111110101 0010011101 101100010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 599
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
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