This is an analysis of the poem Inscriptions: Iv: O Youths And Virgins that begins with:
O youths and virgins: o declining eld:
O pale misfortune's slaves: o ye who dwell... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabXbcdcbbaXaccdXccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 11100011111 0101010111 0111010101 1101110111 1111011011 0101110101 1111011111 01111100101 1101111101 0101000101 0101010111 0101110101 1101001101 0100110111 01000100111 10110011001 11010010101 11001010111 11010101001 10110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 912
- Average number of words per stanza: 164
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
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