This is an analysis of the poem Long Ago that begins with:
I once knew all the birds that came
And nested in our orchard trees;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcD efefgdgD hihigdgDXcgcgcdcD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 11001101 1100101101 11011111 11110101 11110111 1111011 11110101 11010101 11000101 11010101 110011101 11010101 11010101 11011111 11110101 11010101 11010101 10010101 11010101 11010111 11011101 01111111 11110101 11010001 01000101 10110101 11111110 11000101 10011101 11111101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Long Ago;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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