This is an analysis of the poem Two Hundred Years Ago that begins with:
Two honder year ago, de worl' is purty slow
Even folk upon dis contree 's not so... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcXbXXdeeXXX baXXfX ggXXfXXX XhXiXXijcXgXjgag caklhkcXcXaXdX XXXmbXmcXlXXlXl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,6,8,16,14,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101010101 1010111111 1 1101011110 101 110101011 1111110011 100 11101111001 1110101110101 11011101110 100 1 11101010100 1111011111 1101 1111101011 10111001011 100 111101010 11010010101 01 11101011101 101010110010 11 1101010101100 11 11101110100 0111111010 111 110001010111 10 101111110101 11111100101 10 10111111110 101 10111111011 1 10111111101 1010 11101011001 111 11101011001 1111011100 10101 10101111001 01010110101 11 10101010101 10110010011 101 11101010101 101111110110 101 0111010010100 1111 0111001010100 11101011111 100 1110111011 1 011111111101 10 11101100111 10101111101 01 010010011 11010010111 10 11100111101 10 10100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 375
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, an', on, he are repeated.
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