This is an analysis of the poem Passing Away, Saith The World that begins with:
Passing away, saith the World, passing away:
Chances, beauty and youth, sapp'd day by day:... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaaA aaaaaaaaAXaaaaaaaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10011011001 1010111111 1110100011 00110100111001 111101011 111110011101 11101101101 111011 11101 10011111001 0010011101111 1010111011 10110100101 010001111101 1111101101101 10111111101 1111 11101 10011111001 1010100101 111011110101 1010100101 111011111111 0110110111001 111101111111 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, at, thy, in are repeated.
The author used the same word passing at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word yea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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