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
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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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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