This is an analysis of the poem The Old Times Were The Best that begins with:
Friends, my heart is half aweary
Of its happiness to-night:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXababA XXaaaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101100 0010001 11111110 1110101 10101010 10101001 10101010 1011001 10 10101110 0010111 10101001 1011001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
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