This is an analysis of the poem Fragments - Lines 1327 - 1334 that begins with:
My boy, as long as your cheeks and chin are smooth, I shall never
Cease to praise you, not even if I am fated to die....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111111111110 10111100111001 11010001100011111000110 01110110010110 1101111111000101 1001101001001 10011010101101 111101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 493
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, as, you, to are repeated.
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- summary of Fragments - Lines 1327 - 1334;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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