Analysis of Old men
Ogden Nash 1902 (Rye, New York) – 1971 (Baltimore)
People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.
Old men are different. People look
At them with eyes that wonder when…
People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men know when an old man dies.
| Scheme | ABCBDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10011111 11110111 111100101 11111101 101111 1011111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 208 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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