This is an analysis of the poem Pretty Halcyon Days that begins with:
How pleasant to sit on the beach,
On the beach, on the sand, in the sun,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBabXcdcab bdbdefefbd ghghiiiighXibibcfcfiB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,21,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001101 101101001 01001011 11011001 1110010 111001 111001 111001 001001101 01011001 110011010 10101100100 011010010 0111100100 101001 1100110 110011 11010010 0010011010 0110111100 110011010 111111001 0010010110 001001011 111101 1101101 1101011 110111 0010011010 01011001 110011010 001101101 1010011010 101001001 1101101 11110110 111001 10010110 110111010 101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 476
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; on, no, to, be, it, they, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words n, to are repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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