This is an analysis of the poem A Song Of Other Days that begins with:
As o'er the glacier's frozen sheet
Breathes soft the Alpine rose,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbADAD aeaecdcdF ghghchchF hihijhjhF kbkbgjgjF lblbbhbhADAD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,9,9,9,9,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010101 110111 11110101 0100101 111000101 111101 101011111 010101 11010111 110111 11110101 110111 11101101 111101 010100011 110101 11010101 111111 11110101 111101 11011100 01110101 110111 11010101 010101 01110101 1100101 11010101 110101 11011100 01010101 110111 11010101 010101 01011001 110001 110111101 110111 11011100 10101001001 110101 110100101 011001 11010101 110101 01011101 010101 11011100 01010111 011111 010100101 1101010 101010111 010101 11000111 110111 11010111 110111 11110101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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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