This is an analysis of the poem Yesterday that begins with:

Yesterday, the sunshine made the air glow
pushing me like a sixteen-year-old...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdebbddcfgdXXd hdfXdijfjkXdffh efjXafjlea jjd adXXXbXdf hicddhkcllhhfhhhgcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,15,10,3,9,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111011 101100111 0111111010101 100010101001 11110101 1101 1101 01011111110 1011100110011 1110101000110101 11 0111 110111101 110111101010 110010100 11011111110 111001101010 111 1010111101101 0111100100110 1001010101 1101100 1101 010101000 011110101 1001 1111 01101010101001010 1101010101 101 11001100101011010 1111111110011010 111 111 101011101 10010101111 1011111001 101111001 11101 11010 111011 1001101111 1111100011 111100011 1100110101111 01111011 100111 0110010101 01001001110 11101111 110101001 01110 10101011 11011 101001110101100 1001101011 1001001101 1001010010 10010010 1101011 11 10111 010011 111001011 111110111 111 11 0001001 01011 11111111111111 011011101 11010110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 565
  • Average number of words per stanza: 80
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; in, i, dance, that, knew, and, rise, all, of, its, feathers, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, all are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines believed, blast, up, spine are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Yesterday;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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