This is an analysis of the poem Years Ago that begins with:
THE old dead flowers of bygone summers,
The old sweet songs that are no more sung,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd bXXd efXf dgdg dhdh bibi ejej keke dede jdjX aaaa cece klkl XeXe dddd bebe cdcd ifif hmhm fefe hnXn bdXdXcece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111001110 011111111 0111101010 111110101 1111001110 111100111 1101101010 111110101 1111101110 010100010 1101001100 110100101 1111101110 011000101 1111011010 111100101 1111101110 111110111 0111001110 110101101 1111101010 011110111 1101011110 011100101 0111001010 010110101 1101101110 011100101 0101001010 010100101 0111101010 011101111 0111101010 111100101 1111001110 111100111 1111001110 1100100101 0101001110 011111001 110110101 0111000111 011100111 010101011 1101011110 11010010001 1101101110 011100101 1111101110 011100101 1111001010 111101101 1101010010 111100101 0101111010 11010101 1011111110 111101101 110100101 11111101 111110110 110100111 1111110010 111101111 1101001010 1100101101 0111011010 111101101 1101001110 011101111 1111101010 011101111 1111111011 111111101 0111001011 101101111 1111111111 111110101 1111001011 111100111 1111001110 111101101 1111001110 110110111 1111101111 110100101 1101101010 111100101 0101101010 111100111 111100110 111100011 111111110 110110111 1101101110 011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, red, rose, you, gray, of, in, soul are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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