This is an analysis of the poem My Centenarian that begins with:
A hundred years is a lot of living
I've often thought. and I'll know, maybe,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dedeXfgf XcXcahah ijijkgkg ldldagag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100001010 110111110 1100110010 111010100 1011100010 110111101 1100101010 011010101 101111110 110100101 1001111010 110110001 1101010101 10010001 10010010101 11000100101 1111001010 010011101 1111001010 10111101 1111101110 010110101 1111111110 110111001 1110111010 0101011011 1111101100 110000101 0101101110 011111101 1111101010 11110101 111101010 110111101 1001010110 110011101 11111111010 01110101 0111101110 011101111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; he, of, and, him, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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- summary of My Centenarian;
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