This is an analysis of the poem Men Improve With The Years that begins with:
I AM worn out with dreams;
A weather-worn, marble triton... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBAcdcdaaaaefefaBA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 01011010 0101 111111 0101010 11111001 01010 101101 100101 0100011 1101000 1111 0011101 111111 1111101 1111011 01011010 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 469
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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