This is an analysis of the poem Ch 06 On Weakness And Old Age Story 05 that begins with:

The active, graceful, smiling, sweet-tongued youth happened once to be in the circle of our assembly. His heart had been entered by no kind of grief...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XaXbcXbXdbcdXbaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010101011110100001001010011010111011010101010101011101110100110111111110011010101111010100101101000100010111111110101001011110110111100 1011111110 1010100010100 11110101000 111101 110101000111 101010010111 1010100101 0011010011011 0100011010 011110101 010010101 111101011010 11111011 1100110100101 111001111010 111101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 704
  • Average number of words per stanza: 117
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 82 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 14
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, of, had, his, he, when are repeated.

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  • summary of Ch 06 On Weakness And Old Age Story 05;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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