This is an analysis of the poem Growing Old that begins with:
In some summers there is so much fruit,
the peasants decide not to reap any more....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaa XXba XaXX bccX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010111 01001101101 11011111 11111011 01100110010 111111111 1110101010 0111011100 111111101 111111011 1110111 1110101 11110110 11111111 1010100 011001100 11010100100 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; my is repeated.
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- summary of Growing Old;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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