This is an analysis of the poem Age Spots And Lips That Droop that begins with:

Psychotic are their problems.
Big and small ones hidden over time....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbaXdeafa FFgheb dXXijfe hgaecjfXfdba XefaaXah FFihX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,6,7,12,8,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110 111110101 101101011 1101010 011010 1001010100 010010 1100010001 1100101010 01100011 10011 111011 110011010 1110111 1011110110 11110100 11110111 01110101 1101001011 11011110010 100111110101 00101 011101010100111 11101001 110 11111 011011110110 111010110 1111111 1011101 0101101 101000010 111110100 10101 1101 111001110 1110111 10100111 11111010100110 111110 111111100110 1111101 11100010 1101110 111011 110011010 011 110 10110101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, for, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, i are repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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