This is an analysis of the poem With All Struggles Gone that begins with:
Things have gotten old.
And, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaBCbCBdEaFE GBHABBb GBHb AaBCbCBdEaFE GBHb GBHABBb BBBXBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,7,4,12,4,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 1 1110 1010101 1 1001001 00101110 0 11010111 1 110101 11111 1101010111111 1101010111101 11010101011010 100111101011 110001010101 10100010011001 1010101101001 1101010111111 1101010111101 11010101011010 10101010100111 11101 1 1110 1010101 1 1001001 00101110 0 11010111 1 110101 11111 1101010111111 1101010111101 11010101011010 1010101100111 1101010111111 1101010111101 11010101011010 100111101011 110001010101 10100010011001 10101010001001 1101010011101 11101110101101 11101110101101 1101010011101 11101110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; too, people, roaming, and, many, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words too, they are repeated.
The author used the same word too at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gone is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words moan, gone at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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