This is an analysis of the poem To An Old Mate that begins with:
Old Mate! In the gusty old weather,
When our hopes and our troubles were new, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababab cdcdcd aeaeae fcfXfc gdgdgd hdhdhd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010110 111111001 0001010110 11110011 1110110010 101011011 1111011010 11001001 1110110010 01101011 1110111110 11011101 1010111010 01111011 0100110010 01011001 111010110 11011111 1111010111 11001101 1010011010 101011011 1011010011 11101011 1011111110 101011001 1010111010 01001001 1110011110 01111101 1010110010 11011111 110001010 01111101 110010010 01011001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; in, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, through are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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