This is an analysis of the poem The Days Of Pain How To Pass that begins with:

The days of pain how to pass,
Few moments of life yet lumbering, how to pass,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaba ccdX bbeb bbdb ffXf ccbc ccXc ffXf aaba bbeX bbgb hhfh bXcX ffXf hhah hhfh iiXi hhjh hhXh kkck bbjb llkl XddX bbab hhhh ffXf bXjb bXbX mmXm ddnd Xbab hhhh ooao aaoa aaXa hhhch hhfh fXcf kkak hhch mXpm mmXm ccnc aapX hhah mmcm ccfc ccgc mmiX ccbc ffaf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101101 110011100101 1101010001 1011010101 010010100101010 1001111000010 001000100101010 1100010101000 11001111011010 10110111010 111110101 0110010011010 011100001001010 1101100101010 11110111001 0101000101010 1111111110 1100110010110 01010110110110010 11110110110 10010111 1011101 0100110101 0110010100111 011110101011 011011101111 1010010101 0110111 100110011011010 110110010010 101111101 111110111010 010011101101 01011111001 110101001001 1110111011 010110000111010 1010100100110 11010110101001 100101001001000 111010 010100010010 111110101 110010000011010 11111011 100111101 101011010 1100001011 010000101001010 100111001001000 0101110001 11011111000 01111001110 011111100110 101101110 10101101010 10010001001 110101001001 1101111 1100111001001 1010011011001 010110111 101011010 1100100111101 0110101101 111111101 1101101100 1111111001 01010100101 1101000111 101111001010 01001011001 11011111 010010101 01010001110 100010101001 1010010101 1100001010101 101101101 1110111 0101010100010 01011010100110 111111 11000011010 101001111111 101111011 0001101001101 111011110111 1111010010 10100101101 0110111111 1110101010 1111011010 10011011010 0010110101 1110111010 1010111110 1010111010 11111010101 101000110010 1001001010 10110101110 0001101010 010111110 100101001001010 1001100101000 11001011011 11110111010 1100010101010 0101100101000 100111111110 11111011000 1010000100100 01101101100 1100101001110 110101100100100 1001011101 11010101 001011101 101101001101 11001000101000 010110100010 1011011111 0100110011001010 010100110 010010110 1100101111 1101010110 101001110 011101011010 101000101101 101001011010 0111000101 01011010111 101010010101 10010010110111 01010011110 0101011110100 11101010110 111010110010 0010101001111 10111101 0100 11000100101 00101110111 010011110 011111001 111101010 11100010001 1011000100100 00100100101100 101011111 1001111010 1100101010111 1000000101001 010010110 011000111 100110100010 01011001110 01010111001 01010101011100 11111010100 0111001011000 11100101101 1010011010100 010011101010100 110101001100 011010100 111101011010010 0111011001 110101010 110101000110 10111001101 0100100100010 110111010 101101101111 101111000 100111001 100011011 1100101110100 100010001101 0101101010100 0010111100100 101100001010101 0111011010100 0010001010111 110101001101 1100100100100 110101011111 00111010011010 0110101010 10101100101 111111110 11010101001010 1101010110 0101011001 010111111100 10111111111 111100111111 0100111111101 1011100111111 111001000100 01011011110 10010110101 11101011010 111010100 10011010010 1010001010011 111011110 0010111001 111010111 101010100110 110011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 53
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 213
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; how, to, pass, be, in, s, adoration, my, i, thy, of, each, heart, life, look, out, witnessed, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines pass, adoration, heart, look, witnessed are repeated).

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