This is an analysis of the poem The Old Year that begins with:
O good old Year! this night's your last.
And must you go? With you I've passed... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccXaadeXdffXXghccebbeaaijjikkbjjbeehllhXXfmmfggebbegginnioXXppXooqmmqaaboobrrioXirrgaagffXjji
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 96,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111 11110111 1111010 11111111 110001001 1001100 11101111 01111111 1111111 110010111 11111100 1111110 11111101 01101111 1100100 01111100 111011111 1100110 11111111 01011101 1110111 11110101 11010101 0100011 01111111 01010101 0101010 11011111 11111001 0101010 11010111 01100101 0101011 10101101 11010101 1101011 10111101 11111111 1011110 11111101 11010101 0101010 11111010 11010101 0111110 11010111 11010011 1101110 11011111 11010100 0101111 11010011 01110111 1111111 11010100 01111101 0111010 010100101 01010001 0101010 11011101 01010100 01001010 11010101 11111101 0111010 11111111 11110101 1101110 011101001 011011111 0001010 01111101 01011101 0111110 01011101 11011111 0101010 01110101 11010101 1101010 010100101 01010101 11001010 11010001 11010101 0101111 11010101 11011111 0001011 11011111 10111111 1111010 11011101 11010101 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3210
- Average number of words per stanza: 599
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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- summary of The Old Year;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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