This is an analysis of the poem Old Men that begins with:
People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 11110111 111100101 10011101 10101001 1011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; old, men are repeated.
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