This is an analysis of the poem Old Schooldays that begins with:
Awake, of Muse, the echoes of a day
Long past, the ghosts of mem'ries manifold -- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacbbc deed bffb aggX hbbh iXXi iddi ibbX gjjg kbbk diidXhbbh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010001 1101010101 1100110111 1101111101 01011100101 1101000101 1111011101 0101111011 0101011101 0111000101 0110010011 1101010101 1101010101 1111110001 1101110101 0101111101 010010100101 11001111101 1101010101 010110011000 01010110001 1001110111 1111010101 0101000101 10110010011 0101010100 1101100101 1100010011101 010001110101 0111010111 110101101 1101010101 1111011100 1111110001 1101011101 1101011000 0111110001 0101010001 1111010111 0111011101 1101001111 1101010101 0101110101 0111100101 0101110111 11110111 1111111111 111111000101 1101011101 1101110101 1001011111 0100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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