This is an analysis of the poem Those Times Never Forgotten that begins with:
Sometimes the best remedy,
That comes to assist one to heal quickly......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb ccXc bcdc bed Xfcf XfXX eggg gXdgc XdeXXcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,3,4,4,4,5,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101100 1100110110 010010110101 00100110101 01111101 11100101 0101101 0100111111 11000101011 001101010 10100100 0001 0101 11101 01001 0100111000 1001 11110010 101101011 11 111111 110101101 0011100110 1110111 10100110010 101001010001 0111110010 1 10101011101 01000 10101 001010111001 1 111110011 11111100101 1010111 1101011110 111111 1110010 101011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; that is repeated.
The author used the same words sometimes, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Those Times Never Forgotten;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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