This is an analysis of the poem Old-Fashioned Folks that begins with:
OLD-FASHIONED folks! God bless 'em all!
The fathers an' the mothers, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdEfccf ghghiXiXehjjh kfkfbXbXEdaad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 0101010 01110111 0101010 00110101 0101010 11100101 10001010 01010101 0101110 0111 1111 1101110 11010101 1001010 01110001 0101010 010100101 0101000 01110110 0111010 01110101 1111010 0111 1111 1111010 11011111 1111010 11110100 1111110 01010011 1100010 11010101 1111011 01010101 1111010 1101 0101 1100010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 400
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an' is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, an' are repeated.
The author used the same word old at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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