This is an analysis of the poem The Old Women that begins with:
They pass upon their old, tremulous feet,
Creeping with little satchels down the street, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccXXddeeffgX ghhiiaajjhXaaccccccccXXjjjjjjccjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,33,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101111001 1001010101 1101010001 1011011101 1101010101 1101010111 1101001101 0100110011 0100110111 0101010100 1001101101 01010001001 1101010101 1001011101 1011010111 1001010001 1011110111 100 01101101 0111000101 0101010011 0111110000 10010100 0001010101 110101001001 1001010111 0101110101 01010110101 11011011000 1011011101 0101011101 00110100001 0001101101 1001011111 0100110101 10100101111 10110011001 1000110001 0101101101 1101 111101 11110010111 01010101111 0100010111 0111110001 0111001011 11001010100 0001010101 0001010001 1111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 690
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, of, not, this are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, to are repeated.
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- summary of The Old Women;
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