This is an analysis of the poem On Aging Vines that begins with:

Immature children.
On aging vines....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABabcdXefgfgeXXe Abfhcigfad AXBgcicfh gbbbcfXffg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,10,9,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110 1101 10001 110100 01010 00100101 101010 011010001 0101010001 011111 0101 11111 01001 011101000 0111 1001011101 10110 1011 10101 10010000101 101011 11101111 0101 11100010 1111001 01 10110 1010110 1101 11010101 0101001 1011101 010010111 101001001 0010001101 1110111 101011 111001011 011101 10101 001011 101011001 0010011 11100011 01010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 45
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • 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 is repeated.

    The author used the same word immature at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of On Aging Vines;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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