This is an analysis of the poem O. W. Holmes On His Eightieth Birth-Day that begins with:
Climbing a path which leads back never more
We heard behind his footsteps and his cheer;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXbXXbccXcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001111101 1101011101 1101111101 0101010010 10011010101 0101011101 0101011101 10001110001 1001010101 1011000101 1101011110 0111111101 10010101110 101101011010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 596
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
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