This is an analysis of the poem You Want To Grow Old Like The Carters that begins with:
Let other leaders
Retire...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcadae Fgcc aghijafckgi Fiedgcka echgXefcl FlAi abb ajc FlAaej amfemc fXenXn FlAadfjdc cn afXfln
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,11,8,9,4,3,3,6,6,6,9,2,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010 01 011 1 11 0110 100 1101 101 10010 111 01 0001 11 0100 0100 01 10 10 1010 10 010 0100 101 01 110 100010 10 001 0010 1 111010 1010 10 10101 0101 1001001 010 100 1 11011 1 010 1010 1010 1 01 10101 101 111 11011 1 010 101 011 11 10100 100 101 011 100 1 1101 11001 11 011 1011 01 11011 1 010 011 100 0001 0 110 01 1101 1010101 0101010 010 1 100101 01
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 12 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 2
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of You Want To Grow Old Like The Carters;
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- idea of the verse;
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