This is an analysis of the poem Between Us that begins with:
Between us
twenty years of age...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabac XacdebaXcf eeef dgdh ihagdjAA aXcchb kefkcidff bkba eifldcc difibjllBllXXdd Baccei kXcacde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,4,4,8,6,9,4,7,15,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011 10001 0111111 11111 0001 01001110 01111111 111 11100 1110101101 01 01011 101011 0111 0111011 0111100 1010111 10111 11011 00110100 11110101 011110 11110010 010101100 110011010 01100010110 1001000101 10110110 00010 111110101 110101 110101 10011 101110 001 0010011 0101010 11101 11111 111 11101001101 101011111 11110110 0110100 11011 11111 10 111101 1111110 10111 10110101 111 10100111010 11010010 1101001 111010 1001101 1010011 11111 001010 0111101 0010100011010 0011 00101 1010010 101010 0011 1001011 10111 01111011 10 010011001 0101001 0011 1111111 1010101 10101 11001 001010 110001 101011 000111001 001101 10 1101101 001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; can, it, to, i, of, as, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, all, i, its, it are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines do, us, poem, palm, mine, days are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Between Us;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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