This is an analysis of the poem On The Busts Of Milton, In Youth And Age, At Stourhead that begins with:

IN YOUTH.
Milton, our noblest poet, in the grace... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abbaabbacXcXdd X effeeffefgfggg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01 1011010001 01011111001 1101111101 0101001101 0100110101 1111010111 11110100101 1100111101 1100110101 0001010100 1101010001 0100011101 1101111111 1101110111 01 1111111101 1101111011 1101111101 0101001111 0101110011 11110101001 1001010101 1101111101 01010000101 0011010101 0101011001 1101110101 110111000101 1011111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; in, and, 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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