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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