This is an analysis of the poem Those Lost Years that begins with:
I can not count those lost years,
You have ignored me and my efforts....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccc DdeXXede DabbbffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 110111110 1010011101 110011011101 101101001 101 011111101 1101001011 1011010011 11011010 111011101 101111 10101101011 101 1110001101 1110 1011011 11110111 1110011010 1011011110 111110011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Those Lost Years;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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