This is an analysis of the poem Love And Age that begins with:
I play'd with you 'mid cowslips blowing,
When I was six and you were four;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eaeafdfd dbdbadad cXceeded fgfghdhd hihicdcd jkjkgdgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111010 11111101 1101010110 01010111 1111101110 01011011 110101010 11110001 1101010010 11110111 101111010 11010001 110111010 110111001 111111110 11110001 110101011 11010101 1100101011 010001001 111111010 11111101 111111110 11110001 111101010 11111010 111110010 10110101 111101010 11010101 110011010 11110001 110101110 11010101 110111110 11111101 1100111010 01011101 111101110 11110001 111101110 11110101 110101110 010110101 011101010 11110101 110101010 11011001 111101010 11010101 111101010 11111101 010101010 01011111 1111010010 00110001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, you are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ago at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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