This is an analysis of the poem The Foolish Old Man that begins with:
A miller's daughter, as I heard tell—
Sing heigh! but the maid was merry—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaXacdcdXefefghghihiX jhjhjcjXjcjckckXjhjhjcjXlflf mXmX lhlhlflfmcmXmhmh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,28,4,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101111 11101110 111010111 01111010 110111001 0111001 111011001 11101010 111111111 1100110 1110111101 11101010 101010111 1111001 01010101 1111111 111111101 0101010 011110101 01111010 111111101 11111010 11111111 111101110 11010111 0101110 11110111 1111010 10111111 1111110 11010011 1111010 11010111 1001010 11110101 10110110 11111111 1111010 11111011 1101010 11110101 0101110 11110111 1111010 11111111 1111110 10111001 0101010 10110101 1111011 11010101 1101111 1101101101 11001110 111011111 10111010 111110111 1011110 110110101 01011010 100110111 1111011 1101001101 0101010 110101011 1111110 11111111 1111100 111110101 10111010 011100101 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 633
- Average number of words per stanza: 129
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; he, your, on, and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, all are repeated.
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- summary of The Foolish Old Man;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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