This is an analysis of the poem Turning Fifty that begins with:
Having known war and peace
and loss and finding,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc dbce XXfX XdXg gXhd eXheXfaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 11110 1111011 10101 010111 01010 111100 1001 110111 11110 111101 01110 111101 11010 100111 1111 110111 11110 111011 1111 110111 10111 101111 1111 110101 101010 011111 0011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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