This is an analysis of the poem Shadows Of The Past that begins with:
I'm sitting in a shady room,
A dainty scent pervades its gloom,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffgggg ffhhggee eecciijj eeaakkee llllddgg ffaajjcc mmccddkX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000101 01010101 001001010 101101110 11111111 11011001 010001001 10010101 11010111 01000101 01110001 01010001 11111001 11110111 11010111 11010101 10010101 01010011 11110101 10110101 11011101 11110101 11110001 11110111 10110111 10011101 10011101 10110001 11110101 11010111 11111101 11011101 11111101 11011101 01010101 11011101 11011111 01010101 11110111 11010101 11010001 11111101 11111111 01111111 11010111 01101111 01011111 110011111 11110101 11110101 01110001 10011001 01010111 11110111 11110101 010010001 11110111 11110111 11110011 01010001 11110111 01011101 11111101 11111001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Shadows Of The Past;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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