This is an analysis of the poem The Centenarians that begins with:
I asked of ancient gaffers three
The way of their ripe living,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbcbbbX dededbdX aXabfgfX ahXhagag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 0101110 10011101 01010 01111111 0111010 01110111 1101010 110010111 0100110 10011111 01110 01010101 011101 10010011 111101 11110111 1101010 11010101 01000 01110101 1011010 01011101 0110010 11010111 110111 01110101 010011 11110101 111101 11010100 111111 11111101 110101 01010101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
The author used the same word the 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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