This is an analysis of the poem As Old George Said that begins with:
Said old George Jones: 'All in a hundred years.
'Tis little time enough, and well may make... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXaXA ccccaXXA dedeaaXA XfXfXaXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111100100 1101011111 0101010101 0111111111 0101010101 1111011111 1101111100 1111 1001011101 0101111111 1101110111 11011101001 1100110100 11010101100 1111111111 1111 1001010111 1001010111 0011111111 1101001111 11010101001 11001010101 1101110111 1111 1111101111 1101110101 0111111100 0111111101 1101000111 11110111001 1101000101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 334
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; old is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word jones at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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