This is an analysis of the poem Passing that begins with:
To spring, to bloom, to fade,
This is the sum of the laborious years ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbac dbbdc aeeabXaaaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010101 00010001000 1111110101 111111 1001001111101 110111 1101011101 1110111101 111111 101101011111 11001001 0100101111 1101000101 111101 101101110101 011101 1011010111 0111000011 110101 1101001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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 is repeated.
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- summary of Passing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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