This is an analysis of the poem Thirty Years After that begins with:
Two old St. Andrews men, after a separation of nearly thirty years, meet by chance at a wayside inn. They interchange experiences; and at length one... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XBccdbXB CEddceCE BFXabfBF GHiighGH EJdXejEJ GFbbgfGF KLggklKL
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110010100101001111011111010100011110010101001010101101110 0101010 110111 1111010 01001010 1101010 1100101 0101010 110111 0101110 110111 1001010 1111010 0101010 110101 0101110 110111 0101010 110101 1111010 1101010 1101110 110011 0101010 110101 0111011 111011 1101010 1101010 1101001 111101 0111011 111011 0101010 110101 1100110 1101110 1101010 110101 0101010 110101 1101011 110101 1111111 1101111 1111111 111111 1101011 110101 1111110 111101 1101111 1111001 0101010 111111 1111110 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; and, of, you, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, then, jim are repeated).
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