This is an analysis of the poem The Old Days that begins with:
Well, there was no problem.
All the democracies ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abB C deX Xb f aggf bbb bBC eEh diEih a cibi aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,3,2,1,4,3,3,3,5,1,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 100100 100100 0011 11101110 11 1011 0011101 10011 1100010 110101001 1011111111 10111011 10110101010 111010 1110011 1111100011 101100100 100100 0011 1111 11 11001011 11 111100 11 111100 11011 110 111101 11011010 1111010 011111010 10111110 101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 72
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; up, and, way, just are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, so, just, anyway are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines democracies, up, days, don't are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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