This is an analysis of the poem A Man Young And Old: I. First Love that begins with:
Though nurtured like the sailing moon
In beauty's murderous brood,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcb aadaXa Xecede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 0101001 11011101 111111 01110101 010111 11110101 110101 11010101 110101 110010101 110101 111110001 111101 100111001 10001 1010010001 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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