This is an analysis of the poem The Old Man’s Love that begins with:
[HERNANI, Act III.]
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcdeffghfiXXdjfXkfeXjccfbjbjafiXXcfXkccilbeacklg XXbhfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,49,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10011 110010101 11011101101 01010101001 0101010111 11010111010 10011011010 111101110010 11010101110 11011111110 11011101110 1110011111 1011010101 0101011111 1111011111 1101111111 110111010101 101111011101 11110101010 1110111111 011100111001 11111101110 0111110111 10111111110 1111111111 1111110111 1011110001 1101011101 0101111001 11110110010 1010110111 010100101010 11111111011 1101110101 11110111111 1101011111 111100101 11010101010 0101010001 01010111110 11011110101 0101110101 01011100110 0101000101 100101001010 1011010101 111001010010 0101110101 01000100010 01010100110 10111101001110 1100110111 11110111111 0111010111 10111101011 111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 836
- Average number of words per stanza: 158
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, his, and, our, as, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and are repeated.
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