This is an analysis of the poem Not In The Next Few Chapters that begins with:
I remember how 'old' people seemed,
When they were in their twenties....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacbbcdXe ffgahfeeijjd XfkkXbaaaf gaX XgXlcafkfe hcXXXejgXeecjkialjXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,12,10,3,10,20,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011101 1100110 111101 001000110 1101010111 100010111 111110110 01011001011 111011 1011010 11110111 1110111010 111010 1011011 1 111 11 1111101011010 1111101 110111111010 1101 1101 101010011101010 101000101011010 10010110111 01010010 10110 01101011001 110001 111101011101 10001010111101001 10101001111 1010010 1110100011010 11101 1111110111 10011111110 1111101010101 110111 01110110110 101111111101 110101101 111111010010 111111 110111110100100 1 11011110 001101 1111001 10111 0111001 11111001 110110010011100 11001110111 11011101 1100110111 01111111010 1011101001 1110001 11101 1 0110 1101010101 10011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; and, i, we, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, we are repeated.
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- summary of Not In The Next Few Chapters;
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