This is an analysis of the poem When I Was Still A Youthful Wight that begins with:
WHEN I was still a youthful wight,
So full of enjoyment and merry,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a ba bcc a Xa Xdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,3,1,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110101 110010110 010100101 111001110 111100101 010100111 1101011101 111111011 11011110001 1100111110 1010101101 110011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 77
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on is repeated.
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