This is an analysis of the poem Who Has Sent The Old Age? that begins with:
Who has sent the old age? I thought youth was here to stay!
Even threshold seems a mountain now,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXaXaA baXXcA XXA acA dbXaA dXdA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,3,3,5,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111111101 101110101 1001011101110101 01111011010010 10011010101011 11101111111101 1111101100111011000 111110101010101011 1111001110101 10100011101101 110101000111 11101111111101 010101111 11111011011011011 11101111111101 1011101111101 10111010110110110011 1110111111101 1011111101110110001 100101101111001010 1111101101 1001010111101 11101111111101 110001111101111 10010101 10101100101 11101111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words even, you are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word stay at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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