This is an analysis of the poem Flower Of Youth that begins with:

LEST Heaven be thronged with grey-beards hoary,
God, who made boys for His delight,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc ddddee fgfghh hhbXii jhjhXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100101110 11111001 100101110 11000001 11110001 111100111 1010111010 110010101 110111010 110101001 11010101 10111011 111101110 01011101 111110110 10111111 11111110 10010101 1100101010 11000101 101101110 1101101100 01111111 11111011 100101010 11011101 010110010 11001111 111111101 11111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; in, and, they are repeated.

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  • summary of Flower Of Youth;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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