This is an analysis of the poem The Old Year And The New that begins with:
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As one in sorrow looks upon... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbc adad ebeb dfdf X gdgd babh ciciXhcac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1 11010101 01100101 10110111 110111 01010101 01111111 11011101 010001 01111101 01010101 01011100 010001 01111111 11111101 11010001 110100 1 01010001 11010111 01010101 110101 011001001 01000101 01011001 010100 10010101 11100101 00110011 110101 11011100 10111111 11110110 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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