This is an analysis of the poem After Many Days that begins with:
I'VE always been a faithful man
An' tried to live for duty,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcccddddcdedbfef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101 1101110 1010101 1111010 010001001 1101010 11010101 0101110 11011111 1110010 11010111 0111110 11110101 11010010 01110101 10111110 10111111 1101010 01010111 0110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 601
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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- summary of After Many Days;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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