This is an analysis of the poem The Old, Old Story And The New Order that begins with:
They proved we could not think nor see,
They proved we could not write,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcBdedeabaB fdfdeeee gXgeegeg hdhdbhbh eijibkdk glglemem kekebgbg Xnjnbaba dhdhobob popoddddXokokaeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 111111 11110101 111101 11110101 111111 11111101 111101 11100101 111101 11111101 111111 11110111 010101 11111110 111101 010101010 110101 11100101 010101 01110111 110101 01111101 110111 11110101 11000 01010111 010111 110101001 1010011 11000101 110101 11111101 011001 11011001 111101 01010111 010101 01111101 110011 01010111 010111 11010101 010001 11010001 010001 01000101 010001 11110111 111101 01011111 111101 11010101 111111 11111101 1101001 11010101 111111 01010101 110101 11110111 110011 11110101 110101 11110010 010100 11001101 010100 11010101 110101 11110101 111001 111111001 110111 010101001 111101 01011101 0100101 01110101 110111 11010101 110101 11010101 010101 10110101 111101 11111111 010001 11110111 110111 11110101 110101 11111111 010101 11110111 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; they, we, proved, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, the are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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