This is an analysis of the poem The New Order that begins with:

THE old lives are dead and gone and rotten,
The old thoughts shall never more be thought,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaa cdcdee fdXdaa cacaaa gcgcff fhfhii dcXcgg Xcicaa djXjfX icicff ckckaa fcfXff aaaall
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111111110 011110101 0111111010 011110101 10011101010 11111111010 1100111110 01000101010 1110110100010 10110101110 111010101010 101010101010 101010101110 00100010101 1010111001100 11101110101 101011101010 011110101010 1110101110 001001001 101010101110 001011011100 101011101010 1110100111010 101011111010 11101010011 01000101010 10111010101 101011101010 111010101110 11111110010 0101010101 110111011010 10100110111 10011101110 00111011110 11010011010 0100110001 01110100100 1100110111 101010111011 101011111011 01110101100 101000010001 01010111110 1001110101 11110101010 10101101010 11100011010 0101111101 01010101100 0100010001 11111101010 110100101100 111010101110 0101010101 01010001010 11010001000 111011110010 011111101010 111011101010 11110001001 11110100010 01010010101 11110011010 11110001010 111011101110 10101110101 101011101110 1010111101110 101011111110 101010100110 11001111010 1101111111 111111101010 1111110111 111110110010 101010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 78
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; old, and, them, of, love, oh are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, nor, and, a, oh are repeated.

    The author used the same word there 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 him is repeated).

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  • summary of The New Order;
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