This is an analysis of the poem A Man Young And Old: Vii. The Friends Of His Youth that begins with:
Laughter not time destroyed my voice
And put that crack in it,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacacaXbdb XcXccbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111 111100 1101110 110101 11111101 010101 10110101 111111 01011101 11101 11010101 110101 11011101 110101 11110010 110101 11111111 1011111 010010111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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