This is an analysis of the poem When I Am An Old Lady that begins with:
When I am an old lady
the young men...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdded BfdBghfecciXjjk hlhmamjhhgg ajek nbXjckin Xmbda Xfckfdbfldnb cmmhhX fbbaikjaXah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,15,11,4,8,5,12,6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 011 0101 1100 11100 1 10 1110 100 1101 1110 010010 01 1011 110 111 1001 01 1111 10 111 101 010 0101 01001 010001010 1010 0101 11 1011 110 010 110 11010 110101 101 1100 1111 011 1101 011 11 011 011 0011 11 1010101 101 000100 100 100001 1 111 011010 1 111 110101 1 111 101010 11 01 1001 110 100 1111 1111 11100 11111 01 1011 1110 1001 111 1010101 1110 10 1
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 14 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, now, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word now is repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines trembling, them are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase lonely connects the lines.
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