This is an analysis of the poem Long Ago that begins with:
De ol' time's gone, de new time's hyeah
Wid all hits fuss an' feddahs;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXaX BXBC cXXXXdXd BXBC efeffXfe BXBC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,4,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 1111110 11100111 1111110 11101111 1101010 1110011111 0101110 10110101 1110101 110110111 010110 11111110 1111010 1111001101 1101010 01010111 011101 01110101 1011111 10110101 1110101 110110111 010110 111011101 011111 11111101 110011 11101111 111110 11011110 111111 10110101 1110101 110110111 010110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', de are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ergo is repeated).
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- summary of Long Ago;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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