This is an analysis of the poem All That's Past that begins with:
Very old are the woods;
And the buds that break ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXaaaXaXaXcac cacXXdad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 10111 10011 1111 1101101 1111 111100 10101 101101 10111 111101 0101 110100 0111 11001011 1100 101111 1111 10110 1101000 1111001 10111 101111 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of All That's Past;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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