This is an analysis of the poem Youth And Art that begins with:
1 It once might have been, once only:
2 We lodged in a street together,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX eXeX fbfb gXgg hihi jejX dkdk lglX bdbd mgXg jijX cgcX nbnb jljX caca Xbmb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110110 111001010 110101010010 1101110010 11110111 111110110 11110111 1111101000 11101111 111010101100 11110111 11100101000 111111010 111101010 111001010 111001010 11101011 111101110 11111101 111111010 1110101001 1111101011 111101011 101001010 11111001 1110010110 11101101 1101011010 11101111 1011011111 111101101 111010011 110110101 110111110 11101111 101011000 110111010 1001001110 110111010 101001110 11011101 111010010 11100111 111111010 111111110 111010111 111100101 110100110 111111101 110111110 1111001001 100101111110 11111101 1111011010 110101101 111011010 111101101 10111111 11100111 11111111 11110111 101110110 11111111 111001010 111111101 111001110 10111101 1111010110
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, song are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Youth And Art;
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- history of its creation;
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