This is an analysis of the poem A Man Young And Old: Ix. The Secrets Of The Old that begins with:
I have old women's secrets now
That had those of the young;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXb XcXcac XdXdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 111001 11111111 11111 11110101 11111 11000101 010101 11110101 110101 11010111 110111 11011101 01111 11011100 110111 1000101 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; we, such are repeated.
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