This is an analysis of the poem When This Old World Was New that begins with:

When this old world was new,
Before the towns were made,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbA abA abA abA abAXabAA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111 010101 110101 1111011 010101 101111 111101 111101 110101 110111 111101 101111 100101 111101 110101 111111 110101 101111 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 85
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; they is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word too at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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