This is an analysis of the poem Wollongong that begins with:
Let me talk of years evanished, let me harp upon the time
When we trod these sands together, in our boyhood's golden prime;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeX ccffggcceX hhcciiddeX ccXXffeeeX jjkkhhcceX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010001110101 111110100110101 111010101110101 1010101001000101 11101010001001010 10101010100111010 111010101011101 0011101010010101 111010101011101 101010101010100 100010101000101 1011101010001001 111110101011111 101010101010101 101011101010101 101110101111111 101010101011101 101010101110101 101011100010101 101010101010100 101010111010111 101010101010101 101110101011101 101010101010101 101011101110101 1010010101000101 101010100010111 101110101010101 1110010101111111 001010100010100 1110101010111001 101110111011101 101110101110101 101010101010101 100010101010101 101010100010101 1110100101010101 111110101010101 100110101110111 101110101010100 101110101010101 101110111010101 101010101010101 111010111000101 111010101010101 101011100010101 100011001110101 100010101010101 101011101010101 1010100101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 636
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; let, me, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, semblance are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word wollongong at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase days connects the lines.
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- summary of Wollongong;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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