This is an analysis of the poem A Song Of Sixty-Five that begins with:
Brave Thackeray has trolled of days when he was twenty-one,
And bounded up five flights of stairs, a gallant garreteer;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcdcd eaeafgfg ahahidid jbjbkdkd alalgdgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110011001111101 11011101010100 11010101111101 11010101110101 10110001010101 111101010110011 01111101110101 010010101110101 11110101110001 11110101110111 10110100111101 11011111111101 011101011101010 110010111010111 111101010101010 11111101110101 11110011111111 11010101110101 11011101110111 11011111110101 110111111101101 11111101111101 11011101110101 11100101111101 11001110110101 11110011111101 11010111010101 11010101110001 11010111110001 11011101011101 11010101110011 11011101111101 11110001111111 0100100101010011 11110101110101 11111101010101 11110110010111 11011111110001 110101101100101 01010101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 470
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to, i'll, my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i'll, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i'll at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word five at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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