This is an analysis of the poem The Old Days that begins with:
WHEN I was but a little tad I used to hear my dear old dad
Tell friends about the good old days forever gone from him; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXded dcacaddd dfefgeheXgfdffhdh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010111011111 11010011010101 1111010101010111 11100101111111 0100111110001111 01010001110111 1101110111010101 11110011110001 1111110111010110 11110111110001 1111011101111101 01001111010111 1111111111010111 11111111111100 1101010111111111 01100101111101 1101010010011111 11111101010001 1101011111111101 01011111010101 01101010111110101 01011111010101 1101111011110001 11111100111101 1101110111011101 01110111110101 1101010101110111 11010101111101 0110011111110101 11110110010101 1111110111111101 11010111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 504
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, old, i, days, had, in, as, i've, ceased, to, just are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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