This is an analysis of the poem Past Days that begins with:

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Dead and gone, the days we had together,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbC cbc bcbC X dadA ada dadA X eXeF feXXefeF
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,3,4,1,4,3,4,1,4,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1110111010 111010111 1011101110 111 111110111 1111111110 011011101 1110110010 101110111 10101110010 111 1 0101111111 1101011101 01010111111 0101 1011011101 1101111101 11010010101 0101011111 0111111110 01010101011 0101 1 111110101010 10111100110 101111101010 111 11101100111 111010101110 10001111110 111011111010 10111011101 101011111010 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

    The author used the same word these at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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