This is an analysis of the poem The Old Maid's Story that begins with:
Ay, many and many a year's gone by,
Since the dawn of that day in spring,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacacadad dedeafafghgh gdgdieiejkjk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101100111 101011001 11100111011 11110101 11100100101 1101101 1101101111 1110101 1011110111 11000111 00110101111 1100111 1011111011 11110111 111100111 10100101 11101100111 1101111 1100100101 1100100 11111101011 11100111 0101100101 11100101 1110100101 1101101 0100111001 11101101 1111101101 1110111 111110101 10100111 11111001011 11110101 1101110111 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 455
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, they are repeated.
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- summary of The Old Maid's Story;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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