This is an analysis of the poem After Many Years that begins with:
IVY has covered all the wall. How many hours, how many tears, since once we loved? How many days?
No roses now; ivy has torn the vine. Where is...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X X X X X X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010111010110111111101 11011011011011101001010101101010 11010011110100111110111 110111000110100011000101110 1000101010101010101110 11101000100010101010101 110100111110110001 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 89 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 17
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ivy, has, how, many, sun, so are repeated.
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