This is an analysis of the poem Nostalgia To The Light that begins with:
What Annoying the people if we walked in the light of day
And carried your handbag and umbrella...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabcbaccbXacbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001001100101 1101111010 11111010001 1101 11 110011110 0101001111 11 1100111110 110110010010 101010111110 111111101 11010010010101001 110010110100 001011001011 010010010011 101001001111011111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 729
- Average number of words per stanza: 148
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, your, i, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
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