This is an analysis of the poem The Old Man's Counsel that begins with:
Among our hills and valleys, I have known
Wise and grave men, who, while their diligent hands... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefeaagh agiXgXe abebjebeXbXbbgkfggk gbajejbXX bblbeghcd mifbnhkgjjlahlhoXbdmo nighgjnXXdiaao
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,7,19,9,9,21,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111110111 11111111001 1011000101 01001000101 0101010001 11110101010 1100111111 1011011101 1111010101 11010000101 1101000100 1111110111 1001110111 0101001101 0111011000 1011010111 0101011111 1111111101 01011101010 1101010011 11001100101 0101011101 1101001101 0101010111 11011010101 1111010111 0111001000 11110111010 10010110100 11001000101 1010010001 1101000101 1011111101 111101010010 0001010111 0101010111 1101011111 1111010101 10110101110 1011010001 01001011110 1111011101 0101111101 0101111111 11110111010 0101010111 1101010101 1011000111 0101010101 1011111101 1101010111 1011010111 0111010101 1111110111 1100010101 1111111101 0101111111 11001101010 0101011111 01110100111 0101110101 1101110111 1111010101 1101100101 1101010111 1011010101 1101010101 0111010101 1101110101 11110111001 1111100101 1101100101 1111011100 1101011101 0101010111 1101101101 10011111111 1011010101 1011010011 1111010011 11010100111 1111011111 0011001111 01100010101 1111110111 10110110101 10101010101 0101000101 0111010011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 491
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 89
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, my, his, of, in, after are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Old Man's Counsel;
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