This is an analysis of the poem Those Thoughts Kept About The Past that begins with:
Pressing forward with ways more reflective,
And determined to keep......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbc ccddbX dXcec XXX XXaaae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,5,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011010 101001 001000101001 10101 1110011001001 1001011001 00100010 101 0101110 1111001 11000101 11101110 1100101111 011001 10 111 1111 1 001001 01101 1101010 1010101 1001 10101101001 1011010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
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- summary of Those Thoughts Kept About The Past;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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