This is an analysis of the poem In Those Old Days that begins with:
You may be tough.
But your approach to solicit, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabaacadedf X Xdbg aX ecf faXdcdeh a XeX cdd XXhhebg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,1,4,2,3,8,1,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 11010010 1100110 11010001 0110100 111101 010101101 101110010 1111101 111010 011000101111 1001 1 01 111100110 111 11111101 1111111 11 010011010111 111111001 1101 11110011000 11 111010101010 100101110 110110010 11101011000011 001011100011 1111001010 1 1111 01011100 0 1101 111111111 11110011 0101110 111010111 111 10101000 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; you is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines real is repeated).
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