This is an analysis of the poem The Old Age of Nostalgia that begins with:

Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined
future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcaaXXcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110101001000101010 100101001010101011 0101111110010101 1100101000001011 10100010001111 11110001101101 1010011100101110 101001001011101 10111011111101101 000110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 600
  • Average number of words per stanza: 107
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.

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  • summary of The Old Age of Nostalgia;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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