This is an analysis of the poem In The Days When The World Was Wide that begins with:
The world is narrow and ways are short, and our lives are dull and slow,
For little is new where the crowds resort, and less where the wanderers... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcb daaXbb baabdB ebebbbB XXbbbB bbbEB ffbEB XcXbab ggbcb bXbbEB cXbgb fafebeB hbhbbaXXggbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,6,7,6,5,5,6,5,6,5,7,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101011111111111 110011010111101001 1011001111110111 11001001011 00110111 1011100101 10110101 101011010110101101 111110101 1100101 11110011100110111 1011100101 1100101 001110110111111101 1100110100111101001 110101111 00110111 1101001111100101 1011100101 11100101 111101111 1110101 010010111 00110111 111110101111101 110100111100111 01001010111 1111001 1100100101 00110111 11010110100100101 110101100100111 0111001011101111 111101111 00110111 11011010110100111 00100101111100101 10111101011010111 111101111 00110111 00111010110101100 00110101001 111111 01001011010100101 1100100101 00110111 1111001011100101 1111001011001011 1001011110111011 10101000101 00110111 1111011110101111 1100100111 0100111 01001110010100101 111101111 00110111 100100110101111 1001110011110110 0111001010101101 11011001001 11010111 1110011001101111 0100101101 0110111 11100111001 0110111 11101101001 00110111 001110010110 010111 00001011010 0100101 000100101001010001 0100101101 11101110 01110010110101101 111101011101111 01010011011010001 10011111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, or, they, when, ', of, we, world are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, could, they, the are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word wide at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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