This is an analysis of the poem The Old House And The New that begins with:
Is it only twelve mont' I play de fool,
You're sure it 's correc' , ma dear?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdXXe Xfefgaha dXdiXheh XXbcejeX XXdXkcXX kbXblehX deiebXXX fhjhXdhX XgXgXXig ieXejhXh dcXcbdlX XXgeaXhX adeXXbdb eafagXXX hdhgXege jcmcXXcc ehXhXmiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010111101 11011011 1011101111 11101101 110011101 1111111 111111111 1100101 11011110110 11111001 100101101 110101111 100101111 1101111 111011101 11110111 111010101 11111111 11111100111 1011010 110011111 11101111 100111100111 100111 111111111 111110 1101111 11111001 1111101111 0101011 1111101111 111101111 1111110111 110111 1010101101 1101001 101011011101 1110101 111001111 1011111 1111111101 1101111 111111110 11101111 10011011101 11100111 101110101 110111 100100101 10011101101 11011011010 0101101 101110101 10010 1110101111 1010110 111111111 1110111 1111100101 10111101 111111011 111101 110100111 110111 1110110110 11110101 100110101 10111101 111101110 11011011 1101110101 110111 111101001010 1111101 110111011 1111111 111100110101 1100101 110011111 1101111 1110111111 1111101 10101111110 1101101 11110101111 101011111 1100111101 11100111 111110110 11111101 1111101111 10100101 110011101 111111 1110110101 11101111 1011111011 101110111 1101111101 0101101 110101101 1110101 110111101 1101011 1101111110 111010111 11110111 11100111 11010111 1110101 010110110 1100101 11010111 0110101 1111101111 110111 111110110 0101111 111010101 1110111 110110101 1111101 111011101 1111101 1011100 110111 110100111 111111 11111011101 10110111 10111110011 111011 1111111111 1101101 1010110101 11101110
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 136
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, it, you, an', de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', no are repeated.
The author used the same word an' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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