This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of The Old Mendicant that begins with:
There was a rich old gentleman
Lived on a lonely moor in Switzerland,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcc ddXcc bbb bbdXXc ccaaaee ffbb eeXXcc eeaXfff eeff ggff hhffXeecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,3,6,7,4,6,7,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011100 1101010100 111101001001 111101110101 11010111010101 101111111 101110010110 111011011011 11010111 011100101001 111001011111 11110100100001 101001011 1110101 11110101 11001110 1101111110110 111001100111 101100011 110110001 101101111 11111011 11110101 111110111 1011101 11011101 11110001 111010111 1101101 11110110101 10111111 11011111 110110100 1110011101 11110101 1011000101 110000101 111110111 11011001 11010101 11111101 1111110101 11110111011 111101111101 11110111 010101010101 10101111010 010101010 11110110001 11011011 101110010001001 100100110101 1010110111 1110011001011001 10111001100101 001001001 10110101111001 110110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 58
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, he, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, oh are repeated.
The poet repeated the same words door, snow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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