This is an analysis of the poem Growing Old that begins with:
Is it parting with the roundness
Of the smoothly moulded cheek?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacded bfcfgecX hihijeke Xlbljdjd ckakXfff ebbbhkckXgfjflele
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100010 0010101 00100010 1010111 00100010 0010101 00101010 1010111 00101011 1110101 11111010 1010111 00101011 1011101 10101110 1010101 00101010 0010101 00101010 1010001 00101010 1011101 11101010 0010101 10101110 1000101 10101011 1110100 10111010 1011101 10101010 0010101 00111010 1011101 10101010 1110001 10101110 1011101 10101010 0010001 10101110 0010101 10111010 1111101 10101010 1011101 11101010 1010011 101001011 1010001 10101110 1010101 10110110 1010011 11001010 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 56
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, in are repeated.
The author used the same word is at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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