This is an analysis of the poem A Man Young And Old: Viii. Summer And Spring that begins with:

We sat under an old thorn-tree
And talked away the night,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXcdcXadadeXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101111 110101 11110111 111101 11110101 111101 11010101 111101 110101001 1011111 11001101 101101 11010111 110100 11110101 1111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 484
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • 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.

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