This is an analysis of the poem Gone, Gone Again that begins with:

Gone, gone again,
May, June, July, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc aadd eXae XfXf ggaa HffXXHaha
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101 1101 1101 0111 11000 111101 110101 0101 1101 00101 011100 110001 11111 1101111 110101 011101 11011 110101 111000 011001 001101 010001 00111 11111 111011 101111 11011000 0011011 111011 11100101 1011011 11101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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

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