This is an analysis of the poem To: W A that begins with:
Or ever the knightly years were gone
With the old world to the grave,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcdcd abab XaXaXaXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010001 0011001 11010101 1100101 11111111 111111 111111101 1110101 10111111 111111 1010011111 110101 011010101 0011001 011100111 1010101 01010111 1111101 111111110 1111101 11111011101 010101 111010101 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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