This is an analysis of the poem What On Earth Is That 'Old' Man Thinking? that begins with:
I can no longer camouflage my aches and pains.
Or hide them behind grimaces......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaX bXXXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101011111 11001100 1101 1111 101111000101 1100010 10111 110110010 1110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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