This is an analysis of the poem A Commonplace Day that begins with:
The day is turning ghost,
And scuttles from the kalendar in fits and furtively, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababc ddddX efdedd dXadaa fgfgg XdXdd eceXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,6,6,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 11000100011100 11001001 01110100100110 110101 1101011 11010101011101 100101 10110001010101 110110 1001001 1111011111011 1 101111 00010101010101 100111 100101 01111111110011 1 111101 110101010101011 110101 101101 11101010011101 111111 010001110100101 111101 1110011 011100011111011 110110 01100100011001 110101 1110011 11010111110100 100101 11000001011000 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; some is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase regret connects the lines.
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