This is an analysis of the poem Those Were The Days that begins with:
The sun came up before breakfast,
perfectly round and yellow, and we ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdcefXeXeXecdddghhhgXXadfXabadbeecXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110110 100111011 10011111 1111110 11010111 0111001 11101001 111010101 10011011 11101001 111101 1101001010 11101010110 10101001 11011111 101011111 1001110101 0100110101 111000010 00101010011 01011001101 10001101001 111101101 011010101 1111011110 11011011 11110111 111111010 1101001011 10101110 11011010011 1000101011 01100111 111011111 00110101 0010010110 101111100 10111011 111100001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1504
- Average number of words per stanza: 274
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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