This is an analysis of the poem After A Year that begins with:
After a year of love
Death of love in a day;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacbc dbdebe fgfaga hfhdfd didXib ifijfj hbhgXg dXdkdk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 101001 111101 011011 110101 011111 110111 101111 111101 111001 110111 110101 101011 110111 101101 101101 011101 011011 110101 1101010 100101 101100 0111010 111101 101101 111101 111111 111100 111101 111111 111001 011001 100111 100111 1001101 100101 100111 111101 111111 111111 111111 101101 111100 1111010 111101 1111100 000111 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; love, it, as, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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