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

The gold-hoarder walked in his palace park and with him walked his troubles. And over his head hovered worries as a vulture hovers over a carcass,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a X a X X X X X X X X X X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 011010010110110101100110101010101001001110100101010100101010 111100010110010011111010001001010110101000101101011011010100100100101010001101110101110110101010110010010 11101001001000010110001010101111100101011011000111011001100101010101111011101110100011100110010011000010100 100011101011010111001011101010101001110101101100101010001110101111001101010011111110101011001001101010 101010101010110100101011001111101110011011110111110111010111010101111001011011111 1000110101010100010101011010110110111000111011001010110111110 100011111000101010110101010110010001000110111110101010101010111100111110101111101110011111011110101011 1000111010010111101 1000110101010010110100110100100100101110110011111111001001111 10011110111101111010111000100101010011111001110101000 110011001110010101010101001101100011110110000111001111110111000010111111001101011111110011011011111111111011111100100 11101011111010101101010101001101010011101010001010111001010001100101111001000011101100101110100101101001001011110101001011001010010110101001000101000101011001001001001011001010011001001100100110 1110011101111101111111010011001100010101101010011001011101010111011101010001011010110010100100111101011110111010011010001000 1100101010000010010110100101001011001111110101000110010101001101101100011110100100101100101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 362
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 363 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 65
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, of, he, i, to, gold, my, like, with, into, which, from, by, him, in, me, our, among, that, as, all, today, have, yesterday, it, who, would, toward, you, for, time, life, this, one, wealth, what are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words he, yesterday at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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