This is an analysis of the poem The Calculation Of Life that begins with:
Thou art aged; but recount,
Since thy early life began, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgfgfdhdhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 1110101 1100101 1110011 1101101 11111011 1100101 11001111 1101101 11011001 1101101 1101111 111110010 11100011 11111010 00111001 10010011 1011101 01100101 1111111 1100101 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 714
- Average number of words per stanza: 134
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; much, how, to, thy, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
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