This is an analysis of the poem Old Man, Old Man that begins with:
Young men, not knowing what to remember,
Come to this hiding place of the moons and years,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXadXeXd eXXbdcbedbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010010 10010100110 001111111111 101111010101001 0010100110101010 0110010110 01111110 0110011101101 111101001 01110011101011 1101101011111 11111011100 1111110111 11101001001011 1001110011 0111101101 1011101001110 1010011101001 11110110101000 100100111110 011100111 110100101101110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 548
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, it, we, i, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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- summary of Old Man, Old Man;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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