This is an analysis of the poem When You Are Old that begins with:
When you are old, and I am passed away –
Passed, and your face, your golden face is gray –... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaXabCXaabbaC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1111111101 1111110101 1110010101 1001010101 10111111011 1100111101 1111110011 11110010101 1111 1101011001 0101010101 1111111111 1111010101 1111111101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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