This is an analysis of the poem The Days Gone By that begins with:
O the days gone by! O the days gone by!
The apples in the orchard, and the pathway through the rye;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aabbaa ccddaa Aaeeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011110111 01000101011101 01000101010001 111010111110100 101110101011001 1110111000111 001111110101 101010101010101 101000101010101 101011101010101 10101110001101 1010001000111 1011110111 01000101010001 01010101100101 01011001010101 11110101010111 0010101000111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; by, in, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines by is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word by at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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