This is an analysis of the poem On The Slain Collegians that begins with:
Youth is the time when hearts are large,
And stirring wars... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacbabdcb ebfebafffggdhhg hhigigjajgeeaaaXahbbkllllfbfbjjmmkkii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,15,37,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011111 1101 01001010101 00101 010011101 110101 110001101 110101 1111010010 1 0101101 010011101 11010001 11010111 110101 11011101 01000111 01010101 111100001 110000111 01001010011 10011101 10011100 1 01010001 0111110101 1101001 11101001 11110101 1011010111 1 110110101 01011101 1010101 10101 010101 1110101 01000101 01010011 011001101 10111111 110100110 110000101 1111111 11101010 11110001010 1100111 101111111 10011101 1100101 1110011 01000101 111101 1101011101 0101101 1011111 1111110101 11111101 10001101 11011101 111101101 11110101 11001101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 710
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 words and, armed are repeated.
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