This is an analysis of the poem To The Greats that begins with:
To my great nephew.
And wonderful great nieces....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba bcbdcXcXc XXdeabf fcccXcc dXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,7,7,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110 1100110 111010 111010 1010 1010101 1100 1010101 11110111 1111010 1110101 010110100 01001001 10100110 11110 1101101 11010110 10101111 1100110 10111 111110 111101 11110101 110111001 010001011 01110101 10111 1000 011001 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; your, and, you, i are repeated.
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- history of its creation;
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