This is an analysis of the poem The Men Of Old that begins with:
WELL speed thy mission, bold Iconoclast!
Yet all unworthy of its trust thou art,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbcddceeffggXeehaaiibbhbhbjhjhdhXbkbbkkaabbiibbbbbddeebebeell
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 65,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011101 1101000111 0011111001 11010101001 10110100111 01010101101 10110011111 01010101011 1011010111 0100011001 1100010000 10011001001 1001110101 1011010111 1001000101 0101010111 1101111000 01011010101 0111100101 1010010001 0101011101 1111010101 1001010101 1001110101 1011110101 0111010101 1110010101 1100010101 01001010001 1101111101 1011011101 0111000101 1100010111 1111110101 11111101010 1111011101 10110101100 1101010101 0111011101 1101111101 1111001111 1101110101 1101001111 1111110101 11001010111 0101010111 1011010001 1011010101 1011010101 11010100111 1101001101 0101110101 1111010111 11001101101 1010011001 1101000101 1110010101 1101110100 01011011101 010111001 0101000101 1101000101 1111001101 10010101001 1101010010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2895
- Average number of words per stanza: 509
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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