This is an analysis of the poem On Revisiting The Scenes Of Earlier Life that begins with:
— whom I met in earlier day,
Following, as SCIENCE led the way,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccde bbffgghhff ffaaffiijjXggggiigged
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11101001 100110101 11010101 10010101 11111101 11110101 1101101 11010101 1111010101 1111011101010 11110011 11010101 11010101 11110101 111101001 01010111 11010111 010101001 1101110101 1101011110001 11111111 110010111 11011111 11110101 11110101 01010101 11010101 111101001 1111110101 111101110111 11110101 110011111 11110111 11111101 110110101 11110101 11010101 11110011 11010101010 111101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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