This is an analysis of the poem Rabbi Ben Ezra that begins with:
Grow old along with me!
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbX ccXccX ccdeed bbeffe bbgXbg hhiffX jjkaak eeaeea jjfkkX ffiffX llebbe aaXccX mmnbbn ffiXeX aabnnb jjaeeX hheffX bXaooa ppbeebeefeef kkebbe eegccg jjjbbj nneqqe eeeaae kkabbX kkqaaq jjeeee ccjnnj rrkiik ffehheXddnbbn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 010100 0101110111 111001 111111 111111111010 1101010 111111 1101111110 110101 011111 101101110101 111111 100110 1110010101 101101 110101 101111010101 110101 011101 1101011111 110101 111101 110111110111 011111 011101 1101011101 010111 101101 111001111101 110101 111101 1111111111 011111 111101 110101110101 110101 110101 1101010101 110100 111101 0111101111101 101101 111101 1101111111 010101 110101 111110111011 111111 110101 010110101001 111011 110101 110111100111 111101 110101 11110111011 011111 111101 101101111111 110001 110011 1100011111 111111 011101 010001111101 111111 100101 11111101010 101111 111101 111111111111 111101 011100 1101011101 111101 011101 000101011001 111101 111101 1111010111 1011000 111101 11000111001 110111 111111 10101010101 111101 110111 111001111101 111101 010101 0111010001 010001 110001 101101110101 110101 1101001 1101010111 0111101 110101 010111111101 110101 0101110 0101011101 110101 010111 100101100111 101101 111111 01101011111 110101 011111 101101111001 011001 101100 01111101111 010101 010101 011101111101 011111 101101 0101010001 110101 011101 111101111111 111101 111111 1111011101 110111 111101 101111111101 110101 111101 1111011101 1010101 011101 110001110001 110111 110101 1101010101 110101 110001 111101110101 110001 000101 1011110101 111100 110101 011101110101 111101 110011 1111110111 101101 101101 111101011101 111011 110101 1101111111 110001 110110 111111101101 111101 010101 0011101101 010011 011101 111111010001 1101001 110101 0111110111 110111 110101 110101010101 111111 010001 0101111101 011101 010101 1101001111011 111111 111101 1111010111 0100101 011101 110001110111 111111 011111 11101110101 110011 010111 110101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 31
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 192
- 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; nor, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, whose, i, to, all are repeated.
The author used the same word not at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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