This is an analysis of the poem With An Aged, Wise Mind that begins with:
I too had been confined...
In a youthful body, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXa bcdea XfXcXXdageX egba XaX XfdcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,11,4,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 001010 01111 0110111011 1 1110111 1101 10110 11010100 1110101 010010100101111 110010101001 010010 011111010101 11111 01111111 11110101 101110 1010100 11011111 101101111 1111010111111 101101001 10000 1010 10100 10 1110 1110010010 111100111011 01100010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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