This is an analysis of the poem A Man Young And Old: Ii. Human Dignity that begins with:

Like the moon her kindness is,
If kindness I may call... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXa bbXcXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010100 010111 11110101 100111 11110001 010101 11010111 100101 11010011 11100 01011111 010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

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