This is an analysis of the poem Youth And Age that begins with:
Youth that rides the wildest horse,
Youth that throws the deadliest steer, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedecXXcecedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 11101001 1010101 10000101 1010101 1010101 1110101 1010101 1000101 1011101 1010101 1110100 11101001 1110101 1010101 1000101 1010101 1001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 658
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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