This is an analysis of the poem How Rarely These Few Years that begins with:
How rarely all these few years, as work keeps us aloof,
Or fares, or one thing or another,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110111101 111111010 111101101101 111101110 110101010001 011100010 110111010001 010111110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or is repeated.
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