This is an analysis of the poem The Aged Aged Man that begins with:
I'll tell thee everything I can;
There's little to relate.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaBcXcd ebebceXX aaaadcXc fefefXfX ghghcicX ebebcaXa eeXejXjX babagkgk bibiibiXiiiiiiiiXiB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110111 110001 111111 010101 101111011 101001100 101010111 110101 111011101 110101 11000101 110001 110101011 1011101 110111110 01001100 11110001 011101 11111101 111101 11010101 010111 11101111100 111101 01011101 1110111 11110101 110001 11110111 1010010 11010001 1111110 11110001 0111110 11110101 1001010 11110101 010111 10111110011 10100110 111011101 010101 110001010 00101 11111111 1101001 11010100 110101 100111101 1110111 10110101 110101 110101101 10111110 11010011 1101010 11111111 010101 01010101 110001 11111101 011101 11010111 111101 110101111 110001 11010111 000111 10110111 010101 11100111 011111010 11111111 11110101 11110101 01110101 11010001 11010011 11010011 10010101 110101000 11010101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, they, for, whose, his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, whose, who 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.
The poet repeated the same word health at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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