This is an analysis of the poem For Some Years Now that begins with:
For some years now, I have been standing quite close to death, almost face to face,
Standing dumb before my mother, my father, some dear people,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXXbacXXXXXbc X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110111010110111101 101011101101110 1101 110111110101001101 11010010011011 11101010011 100100 11010101010101101 100100110 01111001 011010001 011011101 1010110110010111 110111010101 11011010011011 010110110011010010011010100100101010111101000001001000110010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 472
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; some, for, years, now, in, epitaph, written are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, an are repeated.
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- summary of For Some Years Now;
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