This is an analysis of the poem Terminus that begins with:
It is time to be old,
To take in sail:-- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdcdeeeXeefggfcebbcecchhXccciX bibidadX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001001 0101 0101 110101 10100101 11101 1101 1101010111 10011101 111100 010001 11011011 1110101 010101010 10101010 10101101 1010101 10010101 0101 1111 110101 0101001 101111 1100110 111111 1001 01010111 010010011 1101000101 100111001 0101011111 01010101110 10110001 111100101 11010101 0101110111 10010101 110101 01110101 110010100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, amid, i are repeated.
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- summary of Terminus;
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- idea of the verse;
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