This is an analysis of the poem In Praise Of By-Gone Simplicity that begins with:

In the old capital they stood,
With yellow fox-furs plain,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dededd abbbff eaeaccXffffbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00110011 010111 11010110 110101 11110111 11110001 00110011 111111 11011111 111111 11011111 10110101 1110101 001101 11000101 011111 11001101 11111101 01011101 100101 01111001 110111 10110011 11000101 11110111 011111 11111111 110101 11110101 11100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • 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; so, their are repeated.

    The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • history of its creation;
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