This is an analysis of the poem Days And Days that begins with:
The days that clothed white limbs with heat,
And rocked the red rose on their breast,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa abab cdcd efef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01111101 11011111 110101001 00010101 10011101 01010100 10111111 11010001 11011100 01110111 11010101 01010111 01111100 01011101 11010100 10010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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