This is an analysis of the poem A Man Young And Old that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cdedfdccgchcaifigi XjgeXeceaaijkj Xddcjclc Xfhdidadmfifdf annioXeipcdc agggcgqghaXacafhchfX XolidiciciadbdgcXccdbd Xmaicinegehagagmkm XdpmhmlmkadapaicgcXc llfhbhahfacjcX aXcccpppmqmmabaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,18,14,8,14,12,20,22,18,20,14,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11 11010101 0101001 11011101 111111 01110101 010111 11110101 110101 11010101 110101 110010101 110101 111110001 111101 100111001 10001 1010010001 10111 1 10100 1010100 010111 11110101 100111 11110001 010101 11010111 100101 11010011 11100 01011111 010100 1 011 01110101 11101 10100010 11101 01010100 110101 1 01001 111010101 011001 11110100 011101 1010011 1010001 11001101 100101 11010101 110101 11110001 101001 1 0101 01011101 111101 1010101 01001100 101011 1010111 01011101 110111 11110111 11101 1 0100 11010011 101101 11010101 100111 0101010 111101 01011101 011111 101011100 010111 11110101 111101 01010111 101101 11111101 111101 1110001 11011 1 01001 10110111 111100 1101110 110101 11111101 010101 10110101 111111 01011101 11101 11010101 110101 11011101 110101 11110010 110101 11111111 1011111 010010111 111101 1 10101 11101111 110101 11110111 111101 11110101 111101 11010101 111101 110101001 1011111 11001101 101101 11010111 110100 11110101 1111001 1 010001 11110101 111001 11111111 11111 11110101 11111 11000101 010101 11110101 110101 11010111 110111 11011101 01111 11011100 110111 1000101 10101 1 010 11111111 010101 11111101 111101 11011111 111111 01111101 110111 110100001 110100 101011101 110101 1 01001100 011111111101 1001000101101011 01011100110101 100101100101 1010100100101000111 1111001011110101 0011001010101 01010001110 110111001 11010101111111 100110110101 1001101011001 1000101 01010111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 425
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 178
- 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; and, i, of, never, have, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words at, and, never are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cup is repeated).
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