This is an analysis of the poem Old Graybeard that begins with:
About the shaking window,
Across the bleak brown hill,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdefe cgggXfef ggXgaege XdXdceXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010 010111 1101010 010101 1101111 0011111 1001010 110101 1101010 110111 10110010 110111 010010010 0100101 1101110 110101 1111011 10101111 1111110 110101 1111110 111101 001101110 010100 0101011 100101 1101010 110101 0101110 110111 1101010 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, a, and are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Old Graybeard;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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