This is an analysis of the poem Old Man that begins with:
Old Man, or Lads-Love, - in the name there's nothing
To one that knows not Lads-Love, or Old Man, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeeee bfghXXhXiedfeXcXXfecaffbcafdgifi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,32,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111001110 0111111111 01110011101 1001101100 1001110101 11011010100 1111011001 0101111101 01011111110 11011101010 1101000111 01011011001 1011110011100 01111001 1001010111 0101110101 11111110011 1111010111 111101011010 1001001101 0101110101 1001011001 0111010111 010001 1111 1111010101 111010011 1011110111 1101100110100 1101110101 11110111011 011010101 1101011101 110101111110 111001001001 11111101010 11001111111 0111111101 101011011011 101101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 865
- Average number of words per stanza: 168
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; names, she, as, and, i, no are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines names is repeated).
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- summary of Old Man;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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