This is an analysis of the poem Afterthoughts that begins with:
We parted where the old gas-lamp still burned
Under the wayside maple and walked on, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba ccddcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011111 1001110111 0001111111 1111011101 1101011111 1111010111 1101011111 1101010011 0101111101 1101110101 0110110101 1001110001 1111011011 1100101011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Afterthoughts;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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