This is an analysis of the poem I’m An Older Man Than You that begins with:
WHEN you’ve managed with the tailor for a rig-out of a sort
And you find the coat or trousers are an inch or so too short,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb aabb Xabb ddbb eebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111000101011001 111011101111111 111111101010111 110110111110111 111010100110111 011111101010101 111010011010111 001111101110111 1111001111010111 111010111111101 111111101000111 111100101110111 1110101001100100 101011101011001 1010011101110101 111010101110111 001110101111101 011110101011001 101011101001111 111110101110111 111011101011101 101110101010101 001010101111111 111010101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, your, with, not, when, however, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word be is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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