This is an analysis of the poem The Second Oldest Story that begins with:
Go I must along my ways
Though my heart be ragged,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd aeaefgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 111010 1010101 10011 11111001 101010 1110101 101010 1111101 111110 1111101 101110 1000101 111010 1111111 011010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
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- summary of The Second Oldest Story;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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