This is an analysis of the poem Growin' Gray that begins with:
HELLO, ole man, you're a-gittin' gray,
An' it beats ole Ned to see the way...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXbccaAAadddeeaAAafffffaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110101 101110101 101101001011 1010011110 1110011111 110011111 1111111111 11111111 011110101 011110101 1010111101 110011101 11001101011 1110110101 11010111 11010101 01010101 011110101 011110101 111010101 110110101 110010111 11110111 1010001101 101011111 1011100101 011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1093
- Average number of words per stanza: 216
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; an' is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hello, that, when are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gray is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase old connects the lines.
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