This is an analysis of the poem The Old Men that begins with:
Old and alone, sit we,
Caged, riddle-rid men;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX acac dbdb efef XgXg ecXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 11011 1011011 1100011 1011001 00111011 1011001 111001 1101001 01001 1111001 111001 1111011 01101111 01011101 011010 11001011 11001011 111111110 111101 11101001 01001011 11101111 101011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ', and, one are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of The Old Men;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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