This is an analysis of the poem Now All The Lovely Days Are Past that begins with:
Now all the lovely days are past,
The hours of sun and leagues of sea, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdcdXbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 010011101 11011101 1011 11110101 11010101 11010011 11011101 110001101 01111111 11111111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 409
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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