This is an analysis of the poem Then And Now that begins with:
THEN
He loved her, and through many years,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbc adad X ecec fXfa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,1,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11011100 11010101 01110101 11010101 11010101 11110101 01010111 11010111 1 11010101 11010111 10010101 01110101 11010101 11011111 11110101 11000101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; his is repeated.
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- summary of Then And Now;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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