This is an analysis of the poem Brittle Bones that begins with:
Though I am an old man
With my bones very brittle,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcaXa ADADeaXa Afafgaga AfAXXacaXADADdaea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 0111010 1110111 11010 1111111 11001 11111101 11101 010011 0111010 10100111 11110 1011010 01101 11111101 01011 010011 111110 0110111 10110 11010111 11101 11111101 11001 010011 0011010 10100111 010110 11111110 11101 11011111 01101 010011 0111010 10100111 11110 111110 110101 11111101 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; young is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word again at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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