This is an analysis of the poem The Old Vindictive that begins with:
It was the old
Vindictive...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXCXcdXdbdCec AbXcXcaaacec Abfcfcdddcec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101 010 1010101 11100111 01010111010100 101011100101 11110101010101 111010101110101 01010101 010 101 11100111 0010101010101010 11100111 0101 010 1000101 11100111 101110100010101 11101110101 11110101010111 1111111001100101 0011111010101001 11110111 1110101011111010 00110111 0101 010 1110101 10100111 00100101000100111 1101111101 0101001001101001 010101101010111 111011101010111 11110111 1010101000101010 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 528
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, her, and are repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word low at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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