This is an analysis of the poem In The Grand Old Days that begins with:
In the grand old days
My thought was my life's sole pole-star....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabaXXcddcebXeaXXXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00111 11111111 11111 01101 1 010101 11111 1011 11011 101001 0110111 1001000100 1101000 0110 01101010 010 110110100 1 110100011 1010001 010010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, love, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines love is repeated).
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