This is an analysis of the poem Youth And Knowledge that begins with:
What price, child, shall I pay for your bright eyes
(How large a debt!) the light they shed on me?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXabXbXabXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111111111 1101011111 1111110101 1111110101 1111010100 1001101101 0101011110 0101110101 1111111101 1111110111 1101110101 1011111101 10011101100 0101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 648
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; your, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words your, the are repeated.
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