This is an analysis of the poem The Old Dust that begins with:
The living is a passing traveler;
The dead, a man come home....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXabbXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100010100 010111 1110011011 101110111011010 0100011010001 11010101001100101 11011110101 101110100001 1011110011101 1010100110010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 487
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Old Dust;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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