This is an analysis of the poem Days that begins with:

Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,
Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbabb XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001010001 1011111100 1101001101 110110011 0111011000 1101111101 1011010101 0111010100 1011110101 1101010111 1001001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 11
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and is repeated.

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