This is an analysis of the poem The Memories They Bring that begins with:
I would never waste the hours
Of the time that is mine own,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacacadadeaea XfXfagag hbhbXXad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 0011011 10100110 1111101 10101010 1010111 11101010 1110101 11101110 1011101 10101110 1111101 10111010 1110111 10100110 1111101 01101010 1110101 11101100 1010101 10101010 010111 10110010 1110101 11111010 1011101 10111110 1011101 10101100 1011100 10111010 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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