This is an analysis of the poem An Old Man Muses that begins with:
Can it be I - this Hindenburg, deferring
To demagogues, catch phrases, lucky charms... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbbb XcaXdbdb XcXcaeXe dedecXcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010100010 0101110101 11010001110 1001101101 10100101010 1001000111 11010001010 1101011000 10010101000 0101110100 01011101010 1111010101 10010111010 1001110101 10110100010 0111000111 10011101010 1001110101 110101111100 1001011101 01010001010 0111011101 11010101110 0101001001 11011101110 1101110101 01001101110 1100010101 00111101010 0100111111 01010101010 0101001111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 349
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word this is repeated.
The author used the same word can at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of An Old Man Muses;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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