This is an analysis of the poem On His Eightieth Birthday that begins with:
To my ninth decade I have tottered on,
And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01101111001 11111111010 1111111101 11111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me is repeated.
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