This is an analysis of the poem To-Day that begins with:
Only from day to day
The life of a wise man runs: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded bfbf ghgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 0100111 110010101 1111101 010011 1100111 1101001 1100101 1110101 1110101 110111 0100111 1011111 110101 01001001 0100101 1010101 001101 1010111 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less 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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