This is an analysis of the poem Next Day that begins with:

Moving from Cheer to Joy, from Joy to All,
I take a box...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcabc cdcedc fghgXX iciica jeXheh dkibka dhcXhj biXXfh aXcffi alaflf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001010101 1101 110011111011 011101000100 11001 111101101101 010101011111 01010 1111111011 10110011010 1101 1011001111 111111000110 1111 111101010 01110110111 0100 10110100011 110010111011 11100 110010101111 1011011011011 01010 11011011111 10000110100 11110 0101101111 11111110 01010 0101010101 10011010101 11110 0111011011 10101110111 11010 0111110111 11001111110 0101 1111011001 1100111111 1101 10100111110 1101010011 0111 00111000111 01110111 010100 010110101101 1100111110100 110101 1111111001010 00110101110 011110 111001110101 1111110100 110111 1101100100 11110101000 110111 010111010111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; to, and, wish, me, at, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, body are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Next Day;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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