This is an analysis of the poem For An Old Man that begins with:
Why do I prefer to be direct, blatant in my remarks...
And honest? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdXbbEfd gdhXcbbbhd fXfX aXXXghXE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010001100101 110 001110011010 0110110101 1111111010100 11111101101 11010110101 111101010111 111 10111 11110 101101 11010010 001111 1001101 1 10101 1 111011010 1101111010111 01111010 011111101 111101 01001110 11010111 1110010 010010 01001000000 010011011100 01101 1101101 1110111101 111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, they, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of For An Old Man;
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- history of its creation;
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