This is an analysis of the poem Fifty Years Apart that begins with:
They sit in the winter gloaming,
And the fire burns bright between;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb XdXd Xeae fbab XcXcXddfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001010 10101101 11110010 10101101 11001010 1011101 11001010 1100111 11001010 1010101 1010010 110101 11001010 1110001 1101010 110111 11001010 1100101 110110100 100101 11110010 1111001 01011110 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words one, for are repeated.
The author used the same words they, each at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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