This is an analysis of the poem Loss And Gain that begins with:
FROM day to day, from year to year,
New waves of change assail us here ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaa ddcc eeff gghh gggg hhiiXhhhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101 11010111 11110101 11010101 11110001 01010011 11010101 11111101 11010101 11000111 11011101 110100001 11111111 11010001 11111111 10011001 11010101 110010101 110100101 10110101 110100101 01010111 0100101001 01010101 01110101 10110101 11110101 10110001 11010101 11010101 01111101 10110001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; day, year, new, old are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words new, old, a are repeated.
The author used the same word new at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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