This is an analysis of the poem The Olde, Olde, Very Olde Man; Or The Age And Long Life Of Thomas Parr that begins with:
Good wholesome labour was his exercise,
Down with the lamb, and with the lark would rise: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddXXeeffffggffffXaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101110101 1001100111 01011011101 1001110101 0101111111 0111110101 11011000010 11111100110 1101110101 1101110111 01100111010 10110101110 1011011001 1101110101 1101011101 1001110101 1111010101 1101111101 0101010101 0101111101 1101010101 010111101 1101111111 01101100111 11001111000 0111001100 1100110101 0011011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1228
- Average number of words per stanza: 222
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, or, he are repeated.
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