This is an analysis of the poem At Eighty Years that begins with:
As nothingness draws near
How I can see...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdede cfbfgbgc hihiabac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011 1111 010001 1100 110100 1111 100101 0111 110100 1111 110101 1011 110101 1100 110001 0100 111001 1111 110101 1111 1011101 0111 111101 0100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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