This is an analysis of the poem Ancient Footprints that begins with:
Where are the old ladies of the old neighborhood
shoveling the snows of yesteryear off the sidewalks...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdddXbc baecXfeX aXfXebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110001101 100101011011 1110101011001 11111010010101 100111011010 1111111110011 111011111000100 0111101100101 1110101001 1010101101110 111101100010 111011011110 10100010001010010 1011010101011 001011101010 1111101011 0110111 1101010010111 0011111101 111010101010110 0100001010101011 111011101001100 110111100011 0001010110001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 405
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Ancient Footprints;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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