This is an analysis of the poem Old Fashioned Remedies that begins with:
Taking medicine today isn't what it used to be. Castor oil is castor oil, but they've banished senna tea, And they've sugar coated now all the bitter...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabXcc ddccbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010001001010010101011110101111010110101111010111001001011111101111010110101001011101 10101111110111 10101001010111 10101111000101 10111011010100 11101011001101 11101011111111 11111011110101 11101111110101 10111011110100 11101111011001 10101011110011 11101011011100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 77 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
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- history of its creation;
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