This is an analysis of the poem Old Men Complaining that begins with:
First Old Man
He threw his crutched stick down: there came ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbbaacXddeebbffXgdhcciihjjdiikggk aXkddaaiiljjla mmaaaammccXAccccfflmlddiidhgibi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,14,31,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 110101111 00010101 11110001 1101011 11010111 01000101 01010111 010101001 1101 10111101 11011111 11111101 01110111 10011011 11010 11110111 01010101 01110110 10110111 01011111 01011101 01011011 10011100 101010011 01010001 11111111 11011101 1101001 01010110 111101111 11011101 0111011010 1011 11110101 1111111010 11011101 11110111 11011111 01010101 11101101 01110111 0100101001 10011111 0100100111 1111101011 111 01011011001 110101011 01010111 11110001 11011101 11011101 11011111 100100111 10011111 01010001 111 1111000100 1001001 01111111 01011100 01011111 110001 110010101 01011101 0111 11110111 1110110101 010111011 010010101 110110101 010000100 1101 01110101 101101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 650
- Average number of words per stanza: 129
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; we, he, she, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, he, the are repeated.
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