This is an analysis of the poem Denner's Old Woman that begins with:
In this mimic form of a matron in years,
How plainly the pencil of Denner appears!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffccggfXbbeehhffXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 00101001000 11001001001 01001011111 101001101001 11001111101 11011101101 01001011001 01101001111 11011111101 001001001001 11001011101 111011001001 11010001001 101011010001 101011111001 101001001001 01101111101 010010110010 101001001111 010010110001 01101101001 11001011011 11001101101 001110001001 11001001001 11111101001 11001011011 110011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1291
- Average number of words per stanza: 247
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of, no, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).
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