Poem Analysis of I'M Growing Old by Anonymous Americas for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem I'M Growing Old that begins with:

I’M growing old — ‘t is surely so;
And yet how short it seems...

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Rhyme scheme: abcb bded fgdg bchc gbeb daca egig jgeg ceXe jaca bhih kkkk baba jgjg flclXccfc
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: ballad stanza
Metre: 110110101 111101 11110101 010101 11010111 011101 11110101 011101 11111111 011111 11010111 011101 11110101 111111 11111111 011111 11010101 01011101 110010101 111101 11110111 011101 01110101 010111 110101111 110111 110101001 110111 11110101 110101 11111100 111111 11011101 1101001 11110101 010101 11010111 1100111 01011111 010101 11011101 010111 11111101 011101 11010101 01101 11110101 0101001 11011101 110111 01011101 110101 11111101 1101111 11111101 111101 011101111 11010010 01110101 1101110 11111101 1100111 11111101 111111
Amount of stanzas: 16
Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
Average number of words per stanza: 25
Amount of lines: 64
Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, to, day are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.

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I'M Growing Old by Anonymous Americas: poem analysis

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