This is an analysis of the poem Golden Oldie that begins with:
I made it home early, only to get
stalled in the driveway-swaying ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdeeaaacdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101101001 1001110 1011010101001 11111110 0101010 10111001010010 0101001 011110101001 110110101 11000100 1010111001 110010 01011110 10110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 510
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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- summary of Golden Oldie;
- central theme;
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- history of its creation;
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