This is an analysis of the poem Golf Steals Our Youth that begins with:
Have you seen the golfers airy
Prancing forth to their vagary, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbcc ddeeffee fXgghhaa bbiiaajj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 10101100 11100110 10101010 10101010 10100010 00101010 11100110 11101010 10111010 10111010 10110010 11111010 00111010 10101110 101000010 10101010 10101010 10100010 01100110 101011110 00111010 10111010 10101010 11100010 01011010 10101010 00111110 11011010 10111110 10101110 10101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; after is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word after is repeated.
The author used the same word have at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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