This is an analysis of the poem The Roaring Days that begins with:
The night too quickly passes
And we are growing old, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcada efdfagag Xacabhih bjjjaaaaihjh cabajejebfaf egegadhd bhhhXhbhajXj caXagaaa Xcbcbhjbjdbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,12,12,8,12,8,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010 111101 1111110 110101 1101010 110101 11110101 110101 1101110 0100101 1101010 1100001 1101110 111101 0101010 1010101 1101010 010101 1111110 011101 0101010 110101 11010101 110001 0111110 011101 1101010 100101 1101010 110101 1101010 010101 1101011 110011 01011101 011001 11010110 010101 0101010 010101 1101010 101101 1100010 010111 1101010 111101 11000101 010111 1101010 1100101 1101010 110101 0111010 111101 11110101 110101 1111011 110101 1111010 010101 0101010 010111 0101110 11001 0101010 010101 01010101 110101 1101010 010111 0100010 111101 0100010 010101 01000101 010101 1111010 101101 1111010 110101 1101110 110001 0101010 010111 0101011 000101 01010101 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 89
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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