This is an analysis of the poem So They Begin. With Two Years Gone... that begins with:
So they begin. With two years gone
From nurse to countless tunes they scuttle....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdca dede Xfgf hghg hdhdXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 010101110 11110111 011111010 11010111 010101010 10111101 111111010 11010100 100101110 00110101 111111110 11011101 010110010 11010100 110101110 10011111 010111010 11010101 11101010 11011111 1001011110 11001101 100111010 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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