This is an analysis of the poem The Long Ago that begins with:
O life has its seasons joyous and drear,
Its summer sun and its winter snow,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaA babaA cacaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1110101011 010110101 1010011111 10110100101 0101101101 11101001010 1010101101 10111101110 00110100101 0101101101 0101100101 011011101 11110101001 10110100101 0101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; its, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ago is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ago at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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