This is an analysis of the poem The Old Year that begins with:
IT PASSED like the breath of the night-wind away,
It fled like a mist at the dawn of the day;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXX ddaa ddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01101001101 01101101001 01001011011 01001001001 01001101101 01101001000 0101001111 01001001011 01101101001 1101011001 01001001101 01001101001 01101101001 11001011101 01101011101 11001111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, of, its, on, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase years connects the lines.
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