This is an analysis of the poem The Old that begins with:
Oh bear with me, for I am old
And count on fingers five...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefgdgd dedehihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 111101 00010111 110001 11011101 110111 01000111 110111 11110101 111101 11110101 110101 11001101 010001 01001101 000101 11110101 111111 11010101 010011 01011101 101111 01011111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, with are repeated.
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- summary of The Old;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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