This is an analysis of the poem Some Foreign Letters that begins with:
I knew you forever and you were always old,
soft white lady of my heart. Surely you would scold...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbdcbcbececffXghahagigigagajjjjdbkbababXalammnnbcXallllkXbehhgghnhnmbmgleXecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 80,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111010110111 111001110111 11101110110 10110100111 11001010101 1011001000110 111100111101 111011010011 01000101101101 010100100101 0110011110 10001111111 11101100011 101101001111 0100111101 1100110010001 00010111100 110111110101 00101001101 10111010101 10111111 01011000101 11110011001 111110101 01000111001 10000101101 1001111101 01111010101 010011010100 10101111101 001000110101 1110111111 001111110 10010100111 1111110010 00010101011 01010100100 0011011011 111110101 011101100 1101010101 101101110 10101101101 1101100110 00111110111 1111111110 11010101111 11010100101 00100110101 111111010101 01000100010 0100101001101 1101111101 0111101111 011110111101 111110100101 00010100010011 11001011101 1010011110010 110011010101 111001011001100 010010101010100 1111110101 0110011101001 011010111 11111101001 0110111101 11010111110 1010111001 101001011011 10101111101 1001001001011 1111101010 10101011111 11111001111 1011111011 1000101110 01011011001 111110111101 01011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3634
- Average number of words per stanza: 683
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, your, of, i, to are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of Some Foreign Letters;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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