This is an analysis of the poem Today Like Tomorrow that begins with:
Today like tomorrow,
And days to follow after that......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABbcXX dbEX bdbEX ABXXcbXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011 11010101 111011100 011100001 1111 0100110111 11101100010 10101 101111111 110010010 11011110 0010011101 011001 101111111 110010010 011011 11010101 011010 11001011 1110100111 1011000101 0110101000 110111110 110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word 'have' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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