This is an analysis of the poem That Was Many Years Ago that begins with:
I was told many years ago,
By a college professor......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXcXde XafbXfgX cdgfeXacd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110001 1010010 1101000111 110 11110001000101 111100101 111011100 011000011110 1 1011110001 01 1101111111 1110110110 1101101 10011011111 010100100011 1 01 1111010011 010001 111101011001 1111010110100 11 111110101000001100 01011011101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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, i are repeated.
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- summary of That Was Many Years Ago;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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