This is an analysis of the poem DRIVING WEST IN 1970 that begins with:
My dear children, do you remember the morning
When we climbed into the old Plymouth ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX Xaa bXc Xba cdd XXe eXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011010010 111000110 1111010010 10101010 1101011011 011000111011 11010001 1110110 011010010 01010110 111101 1000101111 1011011010 1000111001 101110001 11111110 110110 1101101011 010011 0111101 10111011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; we is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, the are repeated.
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