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

I wonder if with you, as it is with me,
If under your slipping words, that easily flow ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXb cdcd abab ebeb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11000110001 010110111001 0111010100 110011011 1111010101 1001111001010 1101011101 1010 0111010101 0111110101 0010110110110 00110111 1111111101 0111010101 1111111101 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; if, would, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.

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