This is an analysis of the poem The Baby And The Old Man that begins with:
Here I am O' my staring country home
Look… do you remember who I am?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbacXccdcXcbaXdXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110101 111010111 11100011 0011110 101110101 10101 01011110 111100101 011001 1101011110 10001001 100001101 10000101001 101011100 10111111 11010101111 011110110001 0111011110 111111 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 692
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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; that is repeated.
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- summary of The Baby And The Old Man;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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