This is an analysis of the poem The Best Of Times To Remember that begins with:
Nothing returns from a yesterday gone.
But memories? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXded eXeec bacebX dfaX X aeg gffXXbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,6,4,1,3,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001011 1100 1001011 001001010 110101110001 0010101001 100100100101 110100001001 010101001010 001101 100101101100 10100110001 11010010010101 0011010011001 010110101 11100100101 11011110 10101001000111 1111100001011 101101001001 111011 1001010010 110111000100101 1110 1101101010 1011101 11 1101111011 1010 1100100010011 01100100101 11011010 0010100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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 is repeated.
The author used the same word too at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Best Of Times To Remember;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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