This is an analysis of the poem Often I Reminisce that begins with:
I wish I had kept a list,
Of those who scholarly attempted......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaX bb baX XbX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 011100010 00110100 01010101 0111110101 101101 1101 001010010 1111011111 10011100 1101110 11111 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 79
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Often I Reminisce;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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