This is an analysis of the poem Shedding The Old Man that begins with:
Shedding the old man.
I feel I should....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCAD bedX ffdaeb ABCAD XXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,6,5,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011 1111 110101 01111 111 010001010101 1101001010 001000 011011011 111 11 01111 011110011 1010010 01110101 10011 1111 110101 01111 111 1 01110010 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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