This is an analysis of the poem Growing Old that begins with:
What is it to grow old?
Is it to lose the glory of the form,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcde dcbfg fcXXe ahafX hgXde XifXeXifhfe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100011 0001010001 010001 0011000101 1111001 000111 1111011101 000111 11010010101 111101 101111 1111011110 110111 1011010111 010101 110101 1001010101 110101 1111010001 001111 000111 1111110101 0001100 0011000011 010101 000100 1111110111 101101 1001010001 110101 001101 1111010111 010001 0101010101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; it, to, our, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Growing Old;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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