This is an analysis of the poem To Penelope Brice that begins with:
Shall clamorous youth alone our lyres engage ?
Go, look at Brice and learn the charms of age !...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddeeffccccbb eeeegg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110010111001 1111110101 1111010010 1111010101 1001010001 1111010101 1101000111 1101110101 1101010111 11011101001 11110101001 1001110101 1101010111 1111000101 1111010101 11110101001 11110101001 11010100101 1011010101 1101010101 1111010111 1101110101 1101010001 1101010111 1111110101 11001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 572
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; thy, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, here, and are repeated.
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- summary of To Penelope Brice;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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