This is an analysis of the poem Declining Days that begins with:
Why do I sigh to find
Life's evening shadows gathering round my way? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab abab acXc dede fgfg efef ghgX eXea icic bcbc hfhf jbjb agag egeg acac abab hbhb fcXc gaga jjijXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111101 11011100111 0111010101 100111 0001001 0111111111 0101011101 111111 111101 0111010111 1111110100 101101 111101 0011000111 1101100011 1100101 111111 1101010101 1100101111 111111 010111 1111010101 1101011101 1110001 1101111 0111010111 1111010101 10001110 110111 1111011010 1111001001 110101 111101 0111011101 1011010111 111111 1110111 1111111101 11110110011 101101 111001 1111010101 1101010111 111011 111001 1101100101 1011110001 111101 1111111 0101010101 0111111101 011110 111101 1110010111 1111011111 111101 111101 1101110111 0101010111 111001 011101 1111011100 11111101011 111001 111111 1101110101 1100011111 111101 110101 11001110101 10110101010 111101 110101 1111010101 1111011101 110111 111101 11010110010 1111011101 111111 111111 1001110101 1111011101 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; my, of, and, so, i, not, to, some, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, to, i, some are repeated.
The author used the same words i, might at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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