This is an analysis of the poem Anniversaries that begins with:
Once more the windless days are here,
Quiet of autumn, when the year...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcdcdadaefefgdXdff ccggfhfhiiddjj ddkkhhjjjjgjgjcfcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,14,18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010111 10010101 11110111 01010001 10011100 11010101 11011101 111011011 110110101 001111011 11010101 01010111 11010101 01011101 110010101 110101001 11011101 11110011 11010101 110101101 01010011 011100111 011101011 110101001 01010101 01010101 00110101 10110111 10111111 11010111 11010001 1100101001 00110101 01011111 100010101 001100101 10011101 110011001 01010001 10111101 01011101 010101011 101111011 010100111 10010001 11111111 1111111 11000101 110101111 11010101 10010101 00111111 11010001 11010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 709
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, and, as are repeated.
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- summary of Anniversaries;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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