This is an analysis of the poem In His Eyes! And Ours that begins with:
Times then were lived,
Within our means....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadcc cdeaeXa bfgdgba hXbc hbXd hbcccbdhfb daabddXdbe cbgdaXcaadbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,4,4,10,10,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 0111 110101 0101010 00110100101 10111 010101111 11100001001 100101101 110110001000 00101010010 11111100 1101 10010010100100010 11010111 001 111000100 0111010 0101111 01110101010 011101 01 10101111101 101110010 111100001 01 10101110110 100010110000 101010010100001 01 1010101010 10101111101 0111011010 111110010 11011101 111 1 101 011110111 11 1010 100100010 1101011110 1101001001 00111101 1 11101010101 11001 01 1111 010111 11010010 01101 11101001 1010101100 11001100111011 111 1101 011111011 001 11
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, we, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words people, and are repeated.
The author used the same word today at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines god is repeated).
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- summary of In His Eyes! And Ours;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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