This is an analysis of the poem In Age that begins with:
And art thou he, now "fallen on evil days,"
And changed indeed! Yet what do this sunk cheek, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaabbaabacaccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110011010 1101111011 1101111101 0101001111 0101110011 11110101001 1001010101 1101111101 01010000101 0011010101 0101011001 1101110101 110111000101 1011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 658
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a, of are repeated.
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