This is an analysis of the poem The Old And The New Masters that begins with:
About suffering, about adoration, the old masters
Disagree. When someone suffers, no one else eats ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdebeaXfXagbbXagXf ffbfaaghXaebcXeXefbbhfXaXgec dXeadeaebbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,28,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 011000110100110 001111101111 11110010111 1010010100 0101011101 0101100101 10101010011 110000111101 10011010111 111001000010 0100101111101 01110100 010011010101 11010001010 001010110101 1001011101 01111111101 11101010011 010100011001 111011111101010 1111011001 1100101010 0111010001010 101010100010 010010110001 0101101010010 11000111101 0101111110010 0100110010100 11110101011 01010100101001 01101101011101 1011001101 1010110010 11101010111001 1001000101 01101010110101 0100101011111 00010001001 01001101 1011011001 111101101110 100101101011 1111100101000 010101111010 00001001001 111011010101 1110000101 101101010 1001010101010 0110001001101 1001011001010 01101001111 110001010101010 1011010101 01001001100 10110101101001 101001101001101 1011001000101 01011110010 0011001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 973
- Average number of words per stanza: 171
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in are repeated.
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