This is an analysis of the poem Ch 06 On Weakness And Old Age Story 04 that begins with:

One day, in the pride of youth, I had travelled hard and arrived perfectly exhausted in the evening at the foot of an acclivity. A weak old man, who...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XaaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Metre: 1100101111011011000100010101011000011111110100010111111111001100110101111010101010111111111001001101011111011001010 11110001010 11011110 1101101001 0101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 327
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 5
  • Average number of symbols per line: 133 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 24
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, i, in, of are repeated.

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