This is an analysis of the poem Quarrel In Old Age that begins with:
WHERE had her sweetness gone?
What fanatics invent... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcdadaefef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 101001 001101 1001100 11100 10001 1101001 1101011 11111 11010 1100101 1101010 00101 11101 110111 1001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 392
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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