This is an analysis of the poem Yesterdays that begins with:
Sixty-two, sixty-three, I most remember
As time W. C. Williams dies and we are ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXefagghibfjjehkecalmfkengmdhagckXmmiffmabdXieXlmnjaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 57,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111010 111001101111 10011001010 1010010010 11010100100 0110110110 10011101010 10011011110 1011110001 01011011011 110100101010 01000111110 1011100101 1011011010 1101101010100010 0100010100101 01100100101 01000101111 0101011010 10100110011 010110110 10001011110 111101111 1110110101 011001000010 10101010101 101001001101 1101110011 11010011010 1011000101 0111011101 101010101001 1011010011 1110010011 0101111110 101100010001 1001011110100 1100010011101 0010101111 101001010100 1001011010010 0100101010 0101011101 10001001011010 1010110010011 1010010001001 1010011111 111101000 1110110101001 111011111 1111101111 10100101111 01101101010 111001101010 101110101010 110111101 1001110011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2432
- Average number of words per stanza: 439
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, their, i, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, and are repeated.
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- summary of Yesterdays;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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