This is an analysis of the poem Day That I Have Loved that begins with:
Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes,
And smooth your quiet brow, and fold your thin dead hands.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc dbcdbXefe agag XaaaaXbfbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,4,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111111111 111101111111 011001110101 111011000101 1111011100110 1100011100101 1101110111010 110010010101 110111010111 1011110110110 1101 01010111 1011011110110 1001111110101 11001111100101 10110111001001 1011110111101 11111101101010 101101011101 11001010011010 110111111100 0111011 001111 100111010111 0101110101011 101101010001 1001010100101 1101010111111 1011110010100 111111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- 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; your, i, of, and, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word oh is repeated.
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