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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