This is an analysis of the poem Days Of 1901 that begins with:
The exceptional thing about him was
that in spite of all his loose living,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcXbdX cXdaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010010111 101010110 011000100 1011100 0101101 01001010 0101011110010 101111100 01011110 110110010 10110011 0011111001 0110011011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; his is repeated.
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