This is an analysis of the poem This Day that begins with:
I feel foolish,
like those silly robins jumping on the ditch boughs...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbaXcdcedXXebadXeXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 111010101011 11110 11011101100111 101111101010 1101101110011 111 0110 10001 1010 11111 10110 111001100 01011 110101101 1010010010100110 1010101 10011100 0101011 1001010101 10100100100 11010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 943
- Average number of words per stanza: 129
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of This Day;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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