This is an analysis of the poem Youth’s End that begins with:
I HAVE held my life too high,
Spring and harvest, love and laughter, smile and sigh.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaa ddeeXcXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111111 011101110111 11110101011101 0011001 01001101010101 010101 001010101010011 1111111 1111111 11101110111 11110101010111 1010101 11110101010100 101 1010101010101010 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, i are 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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- summary of Youth’s End;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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