This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 37: As A Decrepit Father Takes Delight that begins with:
As a decrepit father takes delight
To see his active child do deeds of youth,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacacXdadee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001010101 0101011101 1111110101 1111001111 1101011111 1100111111 010011110001 1111100001 1111111101 1101111101 1101010101 1101011101 1101111101 0111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 596
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; or is repeated.
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