This is an analysis of the poem Full Of Life, Now that begins with:

FULL of life, now, compact, visible,
I, forty years old the Eighty-third Year of The States,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbc aXXXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101110100 1100101011001 01010011101001001 011111101 11111111001010100 1001101001010110101 10110100110011011 11 001010010111011110 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; of, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • central theme;
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