This is an analysis of the poem The Artist As An Old Man that begins with:
If you ask him he will talk for hours--
how at fourteen he hammered signs, fingers...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbXbcdXdXeXe fgccgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111101110 1111110110 1011101010 0111011110 1110111111 1110100010 1101101100 1010010100 0111010101 1111110111 1110101010 10101100011 0101001000 0101100101 1011001110 1101001010 1110101010 001111101 0101000101 0101011001 1101011101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 466
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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, his are repeated.
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