This is an analysis of the poem The Old Wife And The New that begins with:
He sat beneath the curling vines
That round the gay verandah twined,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abAb cDcD efef bdbX bbbb ghgh bibi jkjk jcjc jcjc dbdb fafa ilil CiciCDcD ababXaiAi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 11011001 010100101 11100101 01100101 111100101 11010101 10110101 11111101 11111101 11010101 11010110 01110101 01110111 01000101 11001010 00111101 01110101 11011101 11110111 111111010 11110101 100111110 01110101 11110111 11110101 11110111 01010101 11110101 11011111 11011101 10010101 11110101 11010111 11110101 11000100 11111101 11111111 11000101 11010101 11010011 11110101 11010101 01011001 11011111 11010101 11100111 01110111 11110111 01010101 11010001 11110011 01110101 11010101 11010101 01111101 01110101 111100101 11010101 10110101 11111111 11011101 01110101 00111111 11010101 11010101 010100101 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, the, and are repeated.
The author used the same words the, she, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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