This is an analysis of the poem Old Age that begins with:
In me is a little painted square
Bordered by old shops, with gaudy awnings....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdcXcabdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010101 1011101010 10101110101011 1011 011111 1110011000101 11000101 111111 101101100010001 11100101101010 11110001 110110111111101 110111010110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 572
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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