This is an analysis of the poem Old Timers that begins with:
I am an ancient reluctant conscript.
On the soup wagons of Xerxes I was a cleaner of pans. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: A bcX XcX XbX X XXXXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,1,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1111001011 101100101101001 101010010110111 11010010110 1101111010 11100111010 11101111100 010010111001 0101000101010 111100100 1101001110110110 101100001110110 111010111111111 1100011 1111001011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; i, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, the are repeated.
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- summary of Old Timers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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