This is an analysis of the poem The Passing that begins with:
It was the hour of dawn,
When the heart beats thin and small, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dXef egfg hfaf icgc ajij ggkg fcdc laFX dXcf dmXm cknX nfof naFX pgag mfdf dada pfif fqqq fgog lfBF fghg aala ardr gfFf ajjj naaa lbqb ddsd dcnc oaXa sfjf scoc bjhj lfFf brlr ajdX odfdXlfBF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101001 1011111 0101001 100111 100111 0010100 011111 111001 011111 110101 010101 1010101 100101 011111 011111 1010001 111111 110101 111101 011101 11101 111101 111111 111111 111101 111101 111101 111001 111101 110101 010101 110101 11101 11101 111101 011110 00110001 0010100 110101 1110101 010101 110101 01001 110101 110101 110101 111111 1110111 110101 111111 1111010 110101 111011 10101 111101 011110 110101 110001 1010110 1011101 110101 110101 0100111 111101 110101 101111 0111010 1111101 110011 111101 0111011 100101 110101 110101 11011100 110101 110111 111101 00111110 1010101 0101010 010101 00101010 110001 111101 011111 010101 111101 1101010 010101 1001110 1110101 101110 111101 1100010 010001 11110011 111111 1101110 0011101 1111010 111111 1111011 110001 1100011 110101 1101010 110101 1111110 0011111 0101011 1010101 1001110 011101 11011100 011111 1011111 111101 11110100 011100 1100010 1010001 1100010 0010101 10101010 110101 11101001 010001 1101110 0110111 1101110 111101 110110 110111 1100100 111101 1111110 110111 1101110 0011101 1101110 110111 10111010 0011001 1111010 010111 1111010 1111110 101010 110101 0111010 0010101 10111110 010101 00101010 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 39
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 156
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, she, he, it, saw, and, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, she, he, a, you, where are repeated.
The author used the same words he, 'it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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