This is an analysis of the poem My Old Football that begins with:
YOU can keep your antique silver and your statuettes of bronze,
Your curios and tapestries so fine,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBcbaadebdfgfhbebijkkffgegaaablhlhfbfhcecekkkfhahcegefakaXgXgjcXceeieXkjkhaBcckb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 80,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101101110101 1100110011 10111011010001 00111011111 1010010111101 110111001011111 01010101 111001110101 01010111 0101110 1001001 11011100 110101 1101010 1110111 110101 01111101 0101 0101 010111 101000010011011 01010101010111 00111101100101 01011010010101 11111101 110111 11010111110101 1101010 1010101 1001110 1110101 11110100 1110101 1100010 1011111 11010101 111111 101010 1110101 0110010 1010101 0110010 0011111 11111101 110111 1101010 10111010 110100 110101010 11010101 111101 11010101 111101 11110111 010101 10101011 0111101 1111110 1111001 11111101 111101 0101111 11100101 111011111 011001 11011101 010101 11101111111 1111 11101101 111101 011111001 11111 111110110 1110101 1100110011 1011101 1010001 01111111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2749
- Average number of words per stanza: 533
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; your, it, and, its, s, his, one, him, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, he, and are repeated.
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