This is an analysis of the poem Preferring Nostalgic Glances that begins with:
Trapped to rehearse and perfect practices,
To satisfy a doing with a purpose unclear....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaca XcaXXXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1001101100 0101010001001 101001101 111100 1010010 1101001011 10100101 0101011101 1100100010 01101 110010 1110 1101001010 001100101 01000110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 15
- 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; to is repeated.
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