This is an analysis of the poem The Old Remain, The Young Are Gone that begins with:
The old remain, the young are gone.
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- Rhyme scheme: AXaXX ababA acacA adadA aeaeAXaeaeA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 01110101 01010101 01100100 110101110 11011101 011110101 11110101 11011101 01010111 01110111 11110001 11110111 10010001 01010111 11011111 11111101 01110111 10111011 01010111 11101101 01010111 11111111 11011100 01010111 11111101 11111111 11111111 01110100 01010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; too, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word gone at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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