This is an analysis of the poem Written Afterwards that begins with:
So the days of my tramping are over,
And the days of my riding are done—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacacbdbdecec aaaXfcfc agagacac Xbfbecec bhbhbcbc hihihchc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110110 101011011 1011101010 01001001 111010110 11011001 1110011110 11011001 1110010010 11110001 1110010010 111001101 1110011110 11011001 1111011010 011001001 1111011110 101101000 1010110110 01101011 1110010110 111011011 0110111010 11101001 1011110010 111011001 1011110010 111001001 1111111110 01011001 1010010110 101001101 1010011000 001111001 1111010010 111111001 1111110110 11001101 1110011010 011001001 1011011010 11110111 1010011010 111011011 1011110111 111001011 1011001010 101101001 111110110 11001011 1110111010 101101001 1000110010 111111011 1111111010 101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 353
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; to, you, i, her, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word wife at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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