This is an analysis of the poem One Year Old that begins with:
Is it we that are wise, is it we,
Who have bought with a price of grief... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcdeed fdfdddcggc ehehXXihhi cgcXiijkkjXededhhdiid
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001111001 11100101 010101 011101 110110 1110110 11001011 101110 0111011 001001111 11001001 11111001 11110101 1011010010 1101011 1111101 10101101 10100100 1101111 1111001 1101011 1100101 1100101 110101 11010010 1101100 110101 111101 011011 111101 1110101 110111 101101001 0010100 1111101 1001101 1110111 1011101 1001001 10100111 1101001 0111000 1101101 0101111 1111111 110101 11101101 10101111 1111111 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 50
- 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; it, we, to, and, i are repeated.
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- summary of One Year Old;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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