This is an analysis of the poem A Memory Of Youth that begins with:
THE moments passed as at a play;
I had the wisdom love brings forth;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcacbaddcdcddedaeadefefecdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 11010111 11110101 11111111 11110110 01100111 10011101 010100111 11010101 11110111 11010111 11000111 11111111 10110101 11110101 11111101 110010111 11010001 001110101 0010100101 100101001 111101011101 110111110101 1111001010101 1000101000111 110001110111 1101110111101 010111010101 100111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1153
- Average number of words per stanza: 219
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, her, and, we, these are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, we, these are repeated.
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