This is an analysis of the poem The Ones Considered Once On 'Abnormal' Missions that begins with:
It wasn't that long ago...
When those who regarded themselves, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcbcaaa bXaXXd adaXaadXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,6,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101101 11101001 10 10110001 10111110100 01110101 101010 0101110 1101010 111 1110101 1010110010 1001111001 10011011011010 10101100010100 111111101 111110 110011101001 101011001 01110010101101 1010101110010 100111110 0011011010 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; well, and, ones are repeated.
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