This is an analysis of the poem When I Was Fair And Young that begins with:
When I was fair and young, then favor graced me.
Of many was I sought their mistress for to be. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab Bccb Baab BddbB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111011 010111110100 110101110011 11111101100111 110101110101 110101111101 110101110111 11111101100111 1111011101001 101101111011 101111111111 11111101100111 111111111011 110111111101 1001001111101 11111101100111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; go, i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
The author used the same word go at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines more is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words therefore, more at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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