This is an analysis of the poem A Lot Older And Less Naïve that begins with:
1968 has much significance for me.
I was young, married and recently discharged, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbXcaa dXdXceee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010011 11110110001 001010 1101010001010010 1110110011011 1101110100 1011010 00010101100010 0011101010 1110110111 11010000101010 101101101 111110001100 101101010101 1101001110100 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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 is repeated.
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