This is an analysis of the poem Decades Gone that begins with:
Decades gone and times long before,
Like a cancer spreading from shore to shore......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdecc fdbfgb hXfbha ebXegXcg aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,6,8,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101 1010100101 101010001100 1000101011 0101000110100 100110100101 00101001101 101 00101010010 0101010010100 10100100 0010010 0010100000101 0100101101100 11101100101 110110110 11110010 0110010 1111101 01001101101 011001011000101 101011010100 110111 0111111 11110101110 101 010011100011 0101101 1111111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, they are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase enemies connects the lines.
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- summary of Decades Gone;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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