This is an analysis of the poem Old Trouper that begins with:
I was Mojeska's leading man
And famous parts I used to play,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXd eaeafgfg aaaabcbc XhXhaiai bjbjkaka
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101 11011101 11110111 01110101 10010101 11110101 11010101 11110011 11011101 01010011 11110111 01011101 01111101 10101101 11110011 11000101 01110111 11011101 110011101 11010101 11001111 01011101 11110101 11010001 1000101110 11110111 1011010010 11110011 1011100111 11110101 11110111 11111101 01010101 01010001 11111101 11011111 11110111 11110101 01110111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; i, to, my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Old Trouper;
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