This is an analysis of the poem Age that begins with:
Age, thou the loss of health and friends shalt mourn!
But thou art passing to that night-still bourne,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101011111 1111001111 11110101001 0011111011 0101010101 1110010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou is repeated.
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