This is an analysis of the poem Old Tunes that begins with:

When friends are listening round me, Jack, to hear my dying breath,
And I am lying in a sleep they say will end in death,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb bbcc bbbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100111011101 11110001110101 11010101110101 11110110110101 11101101111101 11110101010001 10111100010011 11011111111101 10111101111101 11010011010001 11110101111101 11110101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 13
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, in, your, you, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of Old Tunes;
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  • history of its creation;
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