This is an analysis of the poem Old Times that begins with:
Friend of my youth, let us talk of old times;
Of the long lost golden hours. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcdc ededbfXf egegbbgb deXebbab ababXgbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111011 00111010 11000110101 110001010 11111111 1010111 110101111 0011101 111100101 1101001 101010101 1111111 111111111 1111111 1010111001 011101 11100101101 111101 1111001001 1100111 1011100111 10111101 0100011111 1011111 0111100101 1010101 101110111 111101 1011111111 110111 111101001 110111 10101101 1111001 11101101 0101101 101010101 1110111 111111111 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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