This is an analysis of the poem The Old Pioneers that begins with:
These old friends of ours! Sixty years back,
Bearded and booted, they followed the track, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeaaffdd ddXbbbdd bbddggdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111011001 1011011001 1111011001 1001001101 1001011001 1101101011 1010001011 1011001101 1111011111 1101101011 1111001001 1101011001 1111111111 01101101001 010110101101 001001001101 1001001101 1011011011 10111011110 1011101101 1101001001 10011001011 1101001101 1011101101 1111101111 11010111001 1101011011 1011011101 1111101111 11001011111 1011111101 1101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 367
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word pioneers at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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