This is an analysis of the poem Ch 06 On Weakness And Old Age Story 02 that begins with:

It is related that an old man, having married a girl, was sitting with her privately in an apartment adorned with roses, fixing his eyes and heart...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbb a dcXe X ba c acXeccde X XXXddaabcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,2,1,8,1,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0001011111010011100010001010010101001110101011101111001001110101001001010100101111010101110100010101001011101001001111011010010000100101010111111110111101000101010010001001001001010111 111111011111 101011110001 110101110010 11101110101 1111000010010110111101010011001001001010110100100101010010010111010010101 111101010100 1100001000100 01110001000 111001000101 10001111110100101010010100001001011 111011010100100 01011101101010 011110100011011110100111010111111100110011111101111010010110101101000010111100011110001001100101111 11010010010 10101010100101 1101010101 1100011101110 0101010011010001 01100101010 1111001001001 01101001110111 011101101000100010101111101001010110101110010001111100110011010110100110101001001010001000100110011100101100010011001101010010 0101010011010 111011011110 00010110011 1010000100101 01011000100101 0011010101101 0111010101 10010101010111 111100010 1011010010010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 353
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 108 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 18
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, of, had, to, in, who, i, as, another, every, man, my, she, from, his are repeated.

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  • summary of Ch 06 On Weakness And Old Age Story 02;
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