This is an analysis of the poem The Ages that begins with:
I.
When to the common rest that crowns our days,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbbbbcbb X adaddedee X fdfddgdgg X bhbhXihii a jkjkkakaa a ibibblbll X cacaadadX X mamaakakk X dcdccdcdd c dadaakakk a nonoododd X epeppgpgg X dXdkkekee X ekekkekee X kqkqqbqbb X rdrddbdbb X egeggkgkk X akakkbkbb X mqmqXgqgg X drdrrar
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1001011111 1001010011 1100110101 0101001101 11001010111 1101011101 1101011111 1111100101 110100110100 1 1110110111 11010011111 10110101011 11010011111 1101110111 1101110111 0111111111 1101011111 111101010101 1 10011100101 1000110101 0101010101 01010010101 1101011101 01110100101 01000100101 1101011101 011011010101 1 1101101111 0101011101 1011110101 1101111101 1101011111 0110010101 1101010101 1011111101 001101011101 1 1100010101 1001111011 11010101111 1001011101 11010110111 1101111101 01011110110 11001001101 010111010101 1 11010011101 00111100101 1100010101 1011010101 1011010101 1101110001 0101011111 0101010111 000101010101 1 01010011111 0011011101 10110110101 1111010101 11100011101 0101011111 0101101101 0110110111 1101111101100 1 1101010101 10110011101 11110100111 0100110111 10001010001 10001010101 0111010111 01010010011 111111110101 1 11010100101 0001010111 11010010101 110010111011 1001010011 1101011101 0111111101 11001011101 01010110011101 1 11010100101 1101010011 1111011101 0101010101 01010100101 0101010001 1101010101 1101011001 100011110101 1 11001010101 1101010101 1111010101 0101010111 1011110111 1110011011 01010001001 1111010111 111111110101 1 1101010111 1101111101 1101010101 0101110101 0101011011 1001010101 10110010111 0101010101 1001111110001 1 11011100111 0010010101 10111111011 1101010101 1101010101 0100010111 0011110111 01011110111 0111001010001 1 1101100111 11010010101 1011000111 1111110001 1111010101 0101010111 10110111101 1101111111 110101010101 1 1101010111 101110010101 1101110001 1101110001 11011100111 1011001101 1111000101 11011111001 0101101010001 1 11110010001 1011011101 1101011111 1001011111 11110101001 1111010101 1101111111 0110000101 111111010111 1 1111011111 1101011101 0100110101 110100010101 1101001101 0110010111 1011101101 11010011111 110001110111 1 1111010101 11010001001 1101000101 0100111101 10010010101 0111000101 1111011111 1011011101 100010111001011 1 1011010001 1101010101 0101010101 1001001101 100110100101 0101010101 110111011 0101110001 0111010100101 1 1101110101 0101000101 0111110111 1111110101 1101011101 0101110101 10011010101 11011110101 101101011111 1 1100010101 1101111101 01110100101 1111011101 11011010101 1111010101 1001010101 01001000101 1101101111101 1 110010100101 0101000101 1111011101 0101010101 1101011101 1111010001 1101010101 1101110101 1011010111101 1 1101110111 0101010111 0111000101 1111011111 010010101100 1101011111 0111010011 10101001101 1011110010101 1 0100110101 1101111101 11010101011 11010010111 1111011111 01001111001 1101110101 01010101101 011101010101 1 1101101001 11010011101 1001010101 110010010101 1111110101 1001010111 1101010101 0100110101 0110001100101 1 11010101110 1111110111 11110111010 1111010101 01001100101 1101010101 0110010101 11010101001 111111011101 1 1001011101 0111011101 100110101001 1011110101 110010110001 10011111101 1110110101 0101010101 110101101111 1 1101011111 1101010101 1100010101 1101010101 1101100101 1011011111 0100010101 1111011100 010101111101 1 1101010101 1101110111 11001000111 10111110101 1101011101 1011000101 11001010101 01010011111 010101011101 1 11010010101 10111101011 1011011001 10111011110 01001110101 1111111111 0101110101 1111011001 0100101110101 1 11000010001 1001110111 11010010101 1101010101 100101011001 0111110101 1101010111 11010111011 110111110101 1 1101010111 11001010101 11111011110 0101010111 11001100101 110000110111 1101001101 110011010101 1101010100101 1 1011001111 1011011111 01000101001 1101000101 11010111001 10011000101 0001010111 10010010001 100101110101 1 10010010101 11001010111 01010010101 1101111101 0101110101 1100111101 1111110111 01010010101 010111111011 1 1111011101 1011010101 11011101011 1111011101 10110001101 0111011111 11110011101 0101110111 110011010111
- Amount of stanzas: 69
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 384
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, in, when, less, their, thy, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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- summary of The Ages;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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