This is an analysis of the poem Years Have Passed that begins with:
Years have passed and only sounds of waters have come to my ears,
To-day, indeed, I may even count the ripples around the fishing net....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cc de fgf cXd gXc cgg aXeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,3,3,3,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110101011011 010111101010010101 010001010101001 10000110 010010111010011 101001011101 100110010 010101001101001 010111011001010 010010 1011110101 10111001001010 100101011100 1110010100 10101010110 1010010010 0101110101 0101 010101010 0100010101 10100101 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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