This is an analysis of the poem Old that begins with:
I'm afraid of needles.
I'm tired of rubber sheets and tubes. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXXbaXXccXcXXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001010 010010111 0100101111 111111010 11101 1010111010 11111110 1101110 101010000 11011 11111 11 1111 1011101 101010000 111101101 111010 001111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 554
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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'm, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i'm is repeated.
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- summary of Old;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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