This is an analysis of the poem Gently On The Stream Of Time that begins with:
Gently on the stream of time,
We are floating day by day,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Ababcdcd e eaecAfcfeX eXAbXbAcaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1110111 0110101 1110001 11100010 1010111 01101110 1110101 10 010101001 11111101 111010101 1011101 1010101 1010101 1110101 11101001 11111011 1010101 01111010 100101110 1010101 1110101 11101001 0101101 1010101 1110111 10000101 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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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