This is an analysis of the poem No Time Like The Old Time that begins with:

THERE is no time like the old time, when you and I were young,
When the buds of April blossomed, and the birds of spring-time sung!... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbdd eeff ffccXbbdee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 10111011111101 1010101010100111 0101010110111 110111000101101 10111011111101 111011111010001 00111111001011 1 1011101011011111 101110111111101 1101010110101 10010110010101 110001010101001 101110111110011 111110101110111 111010110010011 111011111011001 111110111110001 10111011110111 11111111110011 1 11111111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 57 (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; time, no, like, there, old are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.

    The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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