This is an analysis of the poem Very Seldom that begins with:
He's an old man. Used up and bent,
crippled by time and indulgence,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbX XbbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111111 10111010 1101010101 1111010101 0100011011 00101110101 0101010111 0101011101 1101001 110110 10001000100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 11
- 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; his is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, their are repeated.
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- summary of Very Seldom;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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