This is an analysis of the poem All My Past Life... that begins with:
All my past life is mine no more,
The flying hours are gone,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXab cbccb Xdeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11110111 0101011 1101011010 11001101 110001 11000101 110101 00110111 11111001 100101 11100100 111101 1110010 01101101 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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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