This is an analysis of the poem When The Old Man Smokes that begins with:
In the forenoon's restful quiet,
When the boys are off at school,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdad efgfcheH eigihjiX jkhklheH lbcbcmcm jcicgaga XieiihhH
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001001010 1011111 10101110 1010101 10111011 1011101 10101110 1011101 10111010 1010101 11100110 1110111 111101110 00101001 01101010 10111 10111110 0010101 10111010 1010101 1110110 1010101 10101010 00100010 10101010 1010101 11101010 1000101 101110111 10100001 000111110 10111 11101011 1011101 10111010 0010101 00100010 00101001 11101010 1110101 10101110 1010101 10101010 0110101 10111110 1011101 11101010 1010111 111111010 0110101 10011110 1011101 10101010 1010101 10101010 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, her, and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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