This is an analysis of the poem The Age Of Wisdom that begins with:
Ho! pretty page, with the dimpled chin,
That never has known the Barber's shear,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaB cbccB dbddb bebbe faffa bXbba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100101 110110101 11101001 00011101 11110101 101110101 101100111 101100111 10100101 11110101 1011011001 1010111 11101011 11101001 11110101 11111101 10101111 01010001 10111001 10011101 010111011 010111011 111101111 110111001 11100101 1011101 11101001 100101111 011101101 10110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words then, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word year at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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