This is an analysis of the poem A Day that begins with:

Talk not of sad November, when a day
Of warm, glad sunshine fills the sky of noon,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba cddc ceec affa geeg hXXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 0111110101 1011101101 1011010101 1010010101 1111011011 1001010101 0101010111 1011010101 0011010111 1101010101 1101100111 1001110101 01010100101 1011011101 1111110101 1101010111 1111010101 1011110101 0111110101 1011111101 0111111000 0011000111 11110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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.

  • 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 word o is repeated.

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