This is an analysis of the poem Gone Is The Sting that begins with:
Too many have found themselves,
Behind times that have moved on....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDAE ABffge fddgfdXCDAE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101 0111111 1001 0010010100 1000100010 1001010101 1101101 0111111 10100001 11100001 001001 11101101 1010111 01001011111 10111101 10010001 101001001001 01011001100 1001 0010010100 1000100010 1001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; want, to are repeated.
The author used the same word too at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Gone Is The Sting;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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