This is an analysis of the poem Since Then that begins with:
I met Jack Ellis in town to-day --
Jack Ellis -- my old mate, Jack -- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBXab cdccD dedde afaaf fffff cgccg hfhhf diddi djddj dbdXb afaXf aBaab kdkkd kdkkD faffaXhfhhf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111100101 1101111 100100100 1101101001 00100111 111101111 1011101 111100111 110111111 1100111 011100111 0100101 1011001111 1111101111 1011111 111111111 0101111 11111011011 111111111 11111101 1101111011 1011111 0100110101 1011111111 0011101 0101110101 0100111 011110101 1010010111 11101111 110111101 11000101 1011101101 111100111 01100101 11110111 110101 110111101 111100101 1011111 1011110101 11101111 0010110101 10111100101 11011001 111101101 1100111 11100110101 1111101111 00110101 111100101 1111101 1111111101 1110111101 1101101 111010101 1101111 101011011011 1101100111 1110111 110100111 10011110 1010111101 1101100111 11101101 110110101 11101101 110101111 110111111 1100111 111110101 11111011 11100110101 10100101101 1100101 1111110101 1100101 110110101 010101111 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jack, his, i, he, and, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, when are repeated.
The author used the same words he, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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