This is an analysis of the poem Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song that begins with:
I am growing old: I have kept youth too long,
But I dare not let them know it now....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacbdecdefcfcgghciffdhXjcccffjXcjcj klkhehelggiidd mhffXfhaicafjfccjcjj jidjijgdXgj jjchjcmhbgXgnmnaoaokgkg jajjaXccbbjjjbj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,14,20,11,23,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101111111 111110101 11101010101 1001110001 1001010111 11010101 1111010011 1011101010101111001 11111111100101 10110111011 11010101001 1001010111 1101010101 11100111001 1101110101 1111 0111010101 10111010101 0100110101 11110010101 001010101101 1111110011 00101110001 1011000100 11010101111 11101010001 10011010011 11101010011 1110110110 110111001001 0101010010111 11011111011101111000 01110001110 1011111001111 1001100101010 111111 1010110001 0101010001 010010000101 1111110111 1101 11010100011 1101110011 111101010101 110101010101 11110111001 101110101 1010011001 01010110111 1001011111 11110011101 1100101 1101011001 111111110111 111001010101 01011011101 111101101101 01111010111 1101110101 1001110101 11010101010111 00110001111 11110110011 11110101 0100010111 01111001001 101110101 00110100111 0111010111 1011111011 1101011110011 11111111111 010101011101 0101110100111 0111010101 11111001010101 11010011 1011110011 11111101011101 101001011001 1001111101 111011011101 1111011010101 11010010111 1111000101001 11001010111 11010111110101 1111010101 1111110011 011010101111 11100101111 0110110101 01010101100 111100111110 1011110001 111100010101010 111110011111 0101110101 11001011101 11011111001 11111100101 10001110001 1011011000 10011111 11101 1111111111 0101011101 011101010101 110010101001 1111011101 1001110011 1011111111 11011101111 11110101101 11001110011 110010101011 11101111111 11110111101 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 888
- Average number of words per stanza: 173
- Amount of lines: 119
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; i, it, to, in, and, so, no, want, over, old, have, not, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, this 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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