This is an analysis of the poem Nostalgia that begins with:
Remember the 1340's? We were doing a dance called the Catapult.
You always wore brown, the color craze of the decade,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdXe afdXghb Xfhafb XiaieaX afaiXXacgidi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,6,7,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100110100110101 1111101010001 11110101110100 0101001100000101 101111111000101 11111101110010 101111011101 1101001101110 10100111011001 010100110101001101 1101110110010 111010010101001 111010010111 11101010010101 010101011111 101110010101 11111101100110 1100111100101 11011100100101 010100100011101 111010010001111 101011111110 1111001010101010 1010110101110111 1111011111111 01000100011111 1011011010001 1001010101010001 110010101010101 10101010100101 11010100011 110011010110 1100111001010001 1011001100110 1010011010001 1110100100101011 11011001110010 011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 348
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (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; and, in, to, or, of are repeated.
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- summary of Nostalgia;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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