This is an analysis of the poem A Grey Day that begins with:
THE long still day is ending
In hollow and on height,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacXcadadefefdgdgbXXhhbXbXiXieiXXggggeaeajgjg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010 010111 0111010 110101 0101010 011111 1111100 110101 1101110 111111 1101010 0110101 1101010 110101 0111010 1000111 1111010 011101 1101010 111101 0110010 110110 01111100 1100101 1111110 110101 1001100 111100 1101010 110101 1111110 111111 1101010 010101 1111100 1111101 1101010 110111 1111110 111101 1101110 101111 1100110 011101 1111110 111101 1111110 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1411
- Average number of words per stanza: 250
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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