This is an analysis of the poem Gold And Grey that begins with:
War was romantic in the days of old.
The knight rode forth to battle unafraid,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXaXaaXXbccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101000101 0111010101 1001001101 111101010 1111010101 0111011000 0101110001 1100010001 1101011101 1111011101 0111110111 1101100101 1101010101 111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 559
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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 Gold And Grey;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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