This is an analysis of the poem An Ancient To Ancients that begins with:
Where once we danced, where once we sang,
Gentlemen, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbb cbcXXdb ebebbbb XbXfXfb fbXXbcb bbbdbdb Xbcdbdb fbfdbdb fbXgXgbXdbdabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 100 01110111 11111101 01110101 11011101 100 11111111 100 11010101 01110111 11011100 011111101 100 11111010111 100 01001111 010111101 11101001 01010101 100 01010111 100 01100110 1010010101 01000110000 1100000101 100 01010111 100 11010010 100111110 11010101 01011011 100 0101100100 100 01111101 11010111 01001100 101111101 100 111111010 100 11010111 11011111 01000101 11011101 100 11110101 100 101101001 11111111 11111100 01010111 100 10010101 100 10001000 10001101 10001100 110011101 100 11111111 100 10111111 111111010 11111111 111111110 100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, much are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word much 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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