This is an analysis of the poem To Be Old School that begins with:
So glad I am to be old school.
With a learning to give respect to others, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcdeX acacff adcbbe Xaegah daXieXX AecgidXddbh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,7,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110011 00100101010 01001110111 0100111011 01100010 101011111 1110011111 1101110101 00101010 1010011111 011101001 011110111 11111011011 01101001101 111011110101 1101110 10100101010 10111100100101 110 11011110010 01100111010 1111100100011 100101000100100 110011010010 1111 110101100111 011000101100101 111000111001 10111010101001 1010111010111 010111010110101 11110011 110101 111111001 10110100010 11011100 10101100001 101111100101 1001001101 1111101100111 010101000100110 10101110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, my, and 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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