This is an analysis of the poem Still Another Day: I that begins with:
Today is that day, the day that carried
a desperate light that since has died....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXc aXdeabaaf cXeXfdXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,9,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101101110 010011111 110101 1101011 10111 1110 010110000101 110101001101 1001000100101 00101010 101010111 0110101001 010101111 01011101 0111110 111101010 1111011010100 1010101010 110010101 011111011001 1100111011 1101110110 1111011010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; that, to, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
The author used the same word today at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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