This is an analysis of the poem Sixty Years Ago that begins with:
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The double-blossomed peach-trees with rosy bloom were gay...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbccbb ddbbeebb XddXbffaa ggeehhbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,9,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1 0101011010101 1111010010101 00110011110101 11001010110001 01011111010101 1100010011101 01010100010101 11101111110001 0101010011101 1101010010101 0101010100011 11011101110001 010111001110111 11010111110111 10101011010101 01010100110001 1 1001010100011101 101011101010101 1010101010000101 101011000010101 101010101111001 101010111011001 101110111000111 101011101011101 101001100011101 101111111110111 011111110010110 111110101010101 101110101010101 111010010110111 001010111010101 1011100100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 485
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, her, and, of, their are 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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