This is an analysis of the poem Unfinished History that begins with:
WE HAVE loved each other in this time twenty years
And with such love as few men have in them even for...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXaXbaXacacddcbeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110001100 1011111100101 111010110100 11100110010 11010010011 1110101010110 010111010001 1011001101 01101110110 111110010010110 1001011000010 111110111010 11110111110 01010011010010 1011101101110 1101011111 11111111010 1111010111 11100101101 011101111010 10011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1053
- Average number of words per stanza: 217
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; in, and, we are repeated.
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