This is an analysis of the poem Before, Behind, And Beyond that begins with:
O the sunny days before us, before us, before us,
When all was bright... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXbba aXXaccca addcbbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101011011011 1111 0101 1010010101 11110101 111110 1111111 1101010 10101011011011 1101 1111 1101011 01010101 1011101 1110111 10111111 1011011011011 1101 0101 0111111 11111101 1010101 1110111 110010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; us, before, and, behind, beyond are repeated.
The author used the same word o 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 us is repeated).
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