This is an analysis of the poem A Woman Young And Old that begins with:
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FATHER AND CHILD... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacccdded Xb fggghbbBcbebebdB Xc hiajjXggXccdffdaad Xk leledgdgamam a c lbebdbngcgbg ac offogggaafccflllhi XjcddcdgXadgXbcaX Xb pbpbpbhhncncncbbjgjgjgggfcfcfcih Xc aaeqbqgoeofoXdkdcdcgqgig mj ebbbaXagcggXXbabXb aX medXdmedqbqbbgbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,2,16,2,18,2,12,1,1,12,2,18,17,2,32,2,24,2,18,2,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1011 11110111 110101 0101110 1010001 11010111 110101 1010100 1101101 1 010111 0110101 10111 101110 110101 0101010 110001 01010111 010111 10110101 1111010 1110101 11101 1111110 111001 11110111 010111 1 01010 101010 010011 01101 1101100 101010 101100 111111 110101 110110 101010 111010 0010011 101111 00101 111001 111011 1111111 010101 1 010 1001000111 01111010100 1001010101 1100110101 1101110011 11001001101 1111010101 11101011100 1101111101 1111010100 1111010101 10010011111 1 1010 111010 010101 11110101 11111 1111010 110100 1110111 11101 1010101 10111 1101010 011001 1 10 01010101111 1001110101 0010101 1011101 111001 11010001 1001011011 01111110101 1101110111 1100010011 1101110101 11110001 11110111 110101 1011101 11011001001 11010100 0101010001 1 10 111101 11101 00111 110101 111111 111101 1011100 0100101 1110101 010101 1110001 111 11111 110011 111000 1 010001 110101110 1111100101 1110111101 010010100111 0100010101 1101010111 11110101110 1101101010 1101111101 1101111111 11001010001 1011011101 11001010101 1001000101 1101011001 1001110101 1101010001 0101111101 0101000101 0101001001 1111111101 1100010101 1101011001 1111000001 11111101111 1111010111 1111011111 1100010101 1111011101 1110010101 11111100101 1111010100 1 01010 110111001 011011 11011111 110100 11110001 111100 1000111 010101 11011101 011101 11010101 11111 11110101 111011 11010101 100101 10111101 11101 11011101 110011 11010100 11111 11010111 010101 1 10 1011101 010111 11010101 10111 11110111 101101 11011111 110101 11111101 110001 11010111 10101 110101010 100101 11111111 11101 01001000 110101 1 001000 10111010 01000011001 0111001 01110110 1001100 101101110 10101001 101110110 10010100 10110111 1001100 10110101 11110101 1101111 11111001 01000101
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 211
- 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; my, and, i, dark, gave are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, nothing, i, scarce, nor, the, overcome are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, ' are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word made at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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