This is an analysis of the poem Ch 06 On Weakness And Old Age Story 09 that begins with:
I have heard that in these days a decrepit aged man
Took the fancy in his old head to get a spouse. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXacXXdbXXXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011001011 101000110101 1100101011011 1110101001000101 010011101010010 100111010001101 1101111010010010001 011101001001 101001111 10100101000110100 11010100101111 10011010101101 1010011100010101 111101111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 821
- Average number of words per stanza: 150
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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