This is an analysis of the poem Alas! Where Have All The Years Gone that begins with:
Alas! Where have all the years gone?
Did I dream my life, or is it real?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdefecfgcbgehi dfijeeggXigecekf ejfkajdhfjeejgXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,16,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111001 011111001 111111110 1111110 1001111101 11000101111 101101111011 111001100011 110111111100 11111011 000110101111001 11101110100101 10110101111111 010101000101 11100101001 11011100010 010101 11101110010 1101101110 111101011110 111101011001010 101101010010 10101011110001 1111000101 1011111011 0101010101 10001110101 11110111101 11111111 1001101 110111111 111101010111 010110011000011 111110011 110101100010 01010010101111 101111010111 11011011110010 11111010010 1111010011 1101110110 11001110101 111101101000100 11010101011110 1111100101010 11101010110100 0110101011001 1101010101001 111111110110 10110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 771
- Average number of words per stanza: 145
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; they, my, in, world, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, what, but, you are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wear, ' are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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