This is an analysis of the poem Times Today Are Not What They Use To Be that begins with:
Many left on faded stages,
Find it difficult to accept......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcadefa X gXhf X iaggjk X bffkbaaifk X Fehhjegd X F XXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,1,4,1,6,1,10,1,8,1,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010 10100001 111100011 0010100101 1100111010001 110010111010 0010111101 00010101 1101001000111101 11110011010011 1111101111000 10111011 111101110010 1111100110011 10011111101 111000101 0101 1111101 01110100110 111011010100 111100001111101 10011111101 11 011001 1101010 10110011 111 1110100101 0110011001010 0111001 111110001010 011000110100 11011 110 1110010001 11010101110010 11001110 1110101010 101 100111100111 1011101101001010 11011 110 1 1101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 46
- 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, have, i, my are repeated.
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