This is an analysis of the poem Yesterday that begins with:
I've trod the links with many a man,
And played him club for club;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcefgfgdddX hihiadaX hjhjhdhe kckchdhe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101001 111111 11011101 111101 10110111 0101001 11011101 110101 011100101 010111 11100101 110111 11110101 111101 11011101 101100 11011101 110101 10110101 010111 011101101 111101 11011101 111100 11110101 101001 11011101 110101 10010111 110111 11011111 110101 11110111 011111 01101111 010101 01111101 111101 11011111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, each are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words ', yesterday at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Yesterday;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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