This is an analysis of the poem The Golden Wedding Of Longwood that begins with:
With fifty years between you and your well-kept wedding vow,
The Golden Age, old friends of mine, is not a fable now.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc bX dd dd ee ff ff gg ff aa dd cc hh ii jj dd cc ii kk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01000111111101 01011101010101 11111100111101 11110101011001 01011011110111 01111101111101 01110101010111 01110111010100 11010101110111 01010111010110 11101111110101 01010101110101 10110101100101 11111111111101 010110101110101 11011101010101 11011011010101 10010101010001 11000101111101 11001111011101 010101011110101 101010011101 110111001010111 11110111110111 010010101111101 110110011010101 110111010101010 1101111111001110 11110101100110 110111011111010 111011100111101 101011101010101 1011010101010101 11110111110111 100111101111001 1101110101111 111101011101001 01011011101101 11010100010011 1111010010100101 11111111010101 11110101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
The author used the same words and, for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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