This is an analysis of the poem Too Long Gone that begins with:
Big guns shoot and limp off fields.
Mired deep......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXa XXXXb CCCa XcXCCCb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 11 01100100 101000 101011 0100101010 1 1111 11 11 11 0010001 10110 1101001 11 11 11 1
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 70
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
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, too, long are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word too is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines long is repeated).
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- summary of Too Long Gone;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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