This is an analysis of the poem Eras Passed that begins with:
I can not depict those eras passed.
As if I wish to have them last....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABCDE afaeefXg AEAEAEE AABCDE AEAEAEE AaAgaHH AHHAIAIXAiAaegb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,7,6,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101 10110101 1011 010111010 00101010 11001010101 0101101 11101 10101101 11111 011010101 11011 111010001 1010101 11010101 1010001110 11010101 1010111101 11010101 11011010 01111010 111011101 10110101 1011 010111010 00101010 11001010101 11010101 1010001110 11010101 1010111101 11010101 11011010 01111010 11010101 0101101 11010101 00111010 111010101 1111010 0111010 11010101 1111010 0111010 11010101 1111001 11010101 1111001 1101101 111001 1101101 11101 101 1001 010010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, has, more are repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Eras Passed;
- central theme;
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- history of its creation;
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