This is an analysis of the poem Yesterday that begins with:
My friend says I was not a good son
you understand...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abb ccc Xddd ee eXfgf fbg bffff f bccX h eXhhc XgcacXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,2,5,3,5,1,4,1,5,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111001 1101 1111101 111011 01110101011 111111 10111100011011 1011111 01110101 1111 110111101110 1101111110 1101111110 111010111 11110111 100011 0110011 111 100101 01101011 1111101 0011111 1111111 111111101 1101 1111 10111011 11110111 10 10101 1110 11110 110 1101011110 11011010 110111011 111010 11010111 11111110011 11111111 11 111111101 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; i, he, and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines understand, know, father are repeated).
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- summary of Yesterday;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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