This is an analysis of the poem My Days that begins with:
My days are but the tombs of buried hours ;
Which tombs are hidden in the piled years ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbcbdbdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110101010 111100010 100110111010 1101111101 1101010111 1011010111 1001111101 1011110101 0101010101 010101001010 1101110101 11010010010 1101111101 1011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 628
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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