This is an analysis of the poem The Days When We Went Swimming that begins with:
The breezes waved the silver grass,
Waist-high along the siding,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcX dedeXaaa aefedgdg fXcccbXb fXfbhbhb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 1101010 10011111 1111110 0101001 0100110 11010111 0111010 011100101 1111110 01110101 1101110 01110101 0111011 11111111 1100011 11010101 1101010 11010101 1111010 01000111 1111110 11010001 1101010 11111101 0101110 01110001 1111010 11010101 1101110 11010111 0101010 11111111 1101110 11110101 1101010 11100101 0101010 11011101 0111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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