This is an analysis of the poem If I Were Old that begins with:
If I were old, a broken man and blind,
and one should lead me to Mid-Eildon's crest,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacdcdcXcbcbccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010111 1111101101 1111010101 1001100101 01001010101 1101111011 110110111 1101110101 1111010101 1011011100 1101010011 0100110111 1101110111 11010111001 0101110001 111101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 344
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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