This is an analysis of the poem Upon His Picture that begins with:

When age hath made me what I am not now,
And every wrinkle tells me where the plow ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbXXccddeeee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111111111 11001011101 0111011111 11001111111 1101010011 1111011101 1101111111 0110010111 1111000101 10110101001 1101010101 1101110101 1011010101 0101110101 0111010111 11101100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 708
  • Average number of words per stanza: 137
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, in, i are repeated.

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