This is an analysis of the poem From The Still Days that begins with:
So ghostly are these late days
Just like the look of sick people, sent here...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X b c a c X X a a b c a X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101111 1101011011 00111001101001 01101110101 1100110111010 11011011010 110110110 1010110101000 1011101110 1101000111 001101 011010110 11110010010010 110010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 43
- Average number of words per stanza: 8
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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