This is an analysis of the poem Carpe Diem that begins with:
Age saw two quiet children
Go loving by at twilight, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXXcdeeXccafcXbbbbcfbcda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 1101111 1111010 1100010 1101010 1101010 1101010 0101010 1101010 11010100 0111010 1101110 1101010 0101010 1101010 0101000 0100110 1111110 1111001 0110001 1001011 1101010 1001001 0111010 1101010 1010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 761
- Average number of words per stanza: 133
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; happy, it, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, too are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines happy, it, present are repeated).
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- summary of Carpe Diem;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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