This is an analysis of the poem Only The Ones Who Continually Count Their Blessings that begins with:
Why is it when one is young,
Aging is something believed......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC DEDFFGD fdfdb bhijbXiXdhcbb ABC DEDFFGD fHHK HHK jXdbcXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,7,5,13,3,7,4,3,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101 1001001 111011 11110101 1010101 1101100 1010001 00101 111011001 11110100001110 1 110 1100100010 110 10010011 1110011111 01001100 01011111 101 011001 11 11101011011 01 101001010 0110010 110101111010 1100101100 1010 1001101 1001001 111011 11110101 1010101 1101100 1010001 00101 111011001 11110100001110 1101100111010 10011010001110 1010101111 10100101010010 10011010001110 1010101111 10100101010010 1111010011 10010 0101101010 111110 101001011 11011100 10101101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; be, i, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word them at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Only The Ones Who Continually Count Their Blessings;
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