This is an analysis of the poem Old And New that begins with:
Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not.
Thou hast given me seats in homes not my own. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc cXX dXXc adbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111011111 11101101111 1110101110100010 110101111101101010 101110101001 111101100 11110011010 010110100101 0101001101 11010110101001010 1111110010111101 11111111101 01001001 001010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, i, hast, in, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thou, i are repeated.
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