This is an analysis of the poem I Am With Today's Youth that begins with:

Who have grown tired and refuse...
To accept aging concepts....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab CXa Cdb CXe CXX CdffXXCbee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,3,3,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 0011010 110011 1111100 101000101101 110011 111101001 11001101101 110011 10110111100 010011011101 110011 100100100010 110101000100 110011 111101011111 11010110100111 01100100100 101111 110011 11110010 001010001110101 11011011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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; with, to 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.

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  • summary of I Am With Today's Youth;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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