This is an analysis of the poem On A Day Like This that begins with:
On a day like this, in a hidden corner
of a church, in full feminine magnificence, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdXaXdcXbXebfXXXfeXbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110001010 001011001000 001110101 1101010 1111010100 1010 0101010 1011001010 0100100001001 10101111010 1101011111 01111111 1001011 1010100010 111110100 10100 11111101 11010101 1011000101 0010 1010101011110 101100101010 11010010 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 830
- Average number of words per stanza: 157
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; in, and, for are repeated.
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