This is an analysis of the poem A Man Young And Old: Vi. His Memories that begins with:
We should be hidden from their eyes,
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaXa cdXdbd ecbceX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010011 101101 11010101 100111 0101010 111101 01011101 011111 101011100 010111 11110101 111101 01010111 101101 11111101 111101 1110001 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
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