This is an analysis of the poem As I Age that begins with:
For six weeks,
I was in isolation....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcbXdced eeccffXacX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 1101010 0110010010 1010110101 11010111110 111111100110 1011011 1001 101011011 001 101111101111 01 111100100101 101110 1101011101 111101111101 110100100 1111010010 1111101011010 011111001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, i are repeated.
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