This is an analysis of the poem To A Rusty Bicycle that begins with:
How many times in years gone by,
My faithful grid have you and I...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeebbffggggaabb bbhhaaddhh iibbjjbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,10,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010011 11011111 11010111 11111101 010010101 01000101 110111001 11111101 11011101 01110011 11011101 01011111 11110111 011101001 11001101 11110111 11110111 010100101 11010101 11111111 010101001 110111001 01110111 01010111 11010111 11010101 11010111 11010111 11010111 01011111 11010101 11100101 10011111 11111111 110010101 110111001 11110111 11111101 11001111 11000101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 469
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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