This is an analysis of the poem Beautiful Old Age that begins with:
It ought to be lovely to be old
to be full of the peace that comes of experience... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXX bccX cXXX Xac Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010001 0010011100100 1101100 0101001011001 1010110000101 11101101010110 0111 1011010110 1101001 101100111001 1011010010 10111 01010001111 11110111110 10111111 1101111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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, be, of, like, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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