This is an analysis of the poem Remembered In Retrospect that begins with:
There is no better voice heard,
Than the one remembered in retrospect....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcaXb aXbcacaXccbcaaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011 1010100101 11110101010001 11010100101010 111101 110010111111 0010010101110 11001111100100 11010101111001 00101010010010 11110101111100 11001000100101 10011010011001 0011010010010101 110010 11010 1101001 11010010 1101001 110010010 101101100010 1110001011000100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines invested is repeated).
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