This is an analysis of the poem Yesterday Down at the Canal that begins with:
You say that everything is very simple and interesting
it makes me feel very wistful, like reading a great Russian novel does...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabbcdXcdXXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1111010101011000 011110101100110101 111001 01001100110 1011100110101010010 11011001001 100101011000111 11 110101 1110001010111 11100100 11111101 1101110100010 0110100011110010 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 616
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; can is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
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