This is an analysis of the poem For My Son Noah, Ten Years Old that begins with:
Night and day arrive and day after day goes by,
and what is old remains old, and what is young remains...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXcXaX aXXbXcX bcXbXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011110111 1101011110101 1111 101011111010 101111110 1011110110111 100 010001011011 01101111111 01010110010110 1100 11010001001100011 01 11001111010011 1110 11111001111101010 100 111101101100 100001 110001010101001 11110100111001 1111101011010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and, day, old are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, or are repeated.
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