This is an analysis of the poem Grey Hairs that begins with:
These are ashes of treasures:
Of hurt and loss....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbccacXdedaXceXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010 0111 11100101 1001 110110 0111 10010 1010011 110010 100101 111101 101111 111101 111100 1010110 01011 0110011 10110 010010 001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 503
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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