This is an analysis of the poem The Days Go By that begins with:
THE DAYS go by—the days go by,
Sadly and wearily to die:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaBbccbB DdaadD AaXaaA EeffeE CccccC GgaagG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 10110001 10010011 10011011 11111111 01110111 11011101 10010101 111100111 101101001 11100101 11011101 10111011 01001111 01000101 11111111 01010101 10111011 11110011 11011101 01110100 10010101 11111101 11110011 11110101 11110101 01011111 11010111 01010101 11110101 01010111 01111101 01111011 11111111 11111111 01010111 01010101 11011101 11111101 01010101 11111101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; where, my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words each, the are 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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