This is an analysis of the poem Lines On His Twenty-Third Birthday that begins with:
LAST evening's huge lax clouds of turbid white
Grew dark and louring, burthened with the rain...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab abcc bdbdbdee cdcdcdbb fefefecc cgcgXgbbbdbdbXaa gdgdgdee ahahahii jfjfjfcc kekekeiiglglglaa bababagg bababaXX eieieidd ebebebkk imimiXaa eeeXeXaa dndndnaXXbgbgbggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,8,8,16,8,8,8,16,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 11110100001 1111010011 1101110101 01110010001 110010100001 0111110101 1101011110 0101011111 00110111011 01011101001 0111010101 01011111001 1111010101 0111111111 01001011111 11001010101 0101110011 0101111111 1101010101 01001010111 0111111111 10110001001 11001110101 01111100111 01001010101 101101101011 0111110111 1101110101 1101010111 11111101010 11101011010 11101011101 1111010111 0111011101 0101001111 01010100100 1101110101 1011000101 01010111111 1101000101 1101010111 0101011111 0101011101 10011101101 0111110101 1111110101 1111100101 1101110111 0101100111 0101010111 1111010101 1111010111 1111011001 1111111111 1111010101 11010101111 1101111101 1111011101 0001010101 11001110101 1111110111 0101110101 11010110111 11110101001 1011110101 1101001011 01010101001 1101110111 11100000101 1101011111 01001010101 1101010011 1101110011 0101011101 1111111101 1101110101 1111110101 1100011011 1111011101 10110010101 01110101001 0101111101 0101010101 1001010101 0101110111 10010010101 1100111111 11110101001 1111010101 1111010111 0111010101 10010111101 1011001101 1101110001 11111100101 01001010011 0101010111 1101110011 0101010100 0101111101 1101011101 0101111111 010101010010 1111111001 0111010111 1101011101 11110010101 0101110101 1011110001 00110110101 1101011111 1111111111 0010010111 1101000101 0101011001 1111010011 10001111111 1111011101 1101010101 1101010101 1011010101 1100011111 01110101011 1001110001 1101010101 1111010101 1111111101 1111111111 11111111111 1111011101 0111010110 1001110001 0101010100 01001110111 1011001101 1101110101 10010101010 1011010111 11010100010 1111111111 01110001010 1101010101 1111110100 1111111111 0101011101 11110001011 0110110101 0001010111 0001010111 1101111101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 390
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 152
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, of, to, for, its, i, more, so, much are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, so, into are repeated.
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