This is an analysis of the poem The Days Of Our Youth that begins with:
These are the days of our youth, our days of glory and honour.
Pleasure begotten of strength is ours, the sword in our hand.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXb cdef cgca baXf fabh ibXf jhXg bXfc fffk Xldb kgca Xbia XfejXblkg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101111010110 10010010101011 10101011010010 101111010101 111101001011010 1001110111111 100101101001010 10011111001001 1001001011101110 100100111111011 111101111010110 1101110111101 101111011101010 1011010111001 11100111101010 1110111110101 110111111001110 100100111100111 10101111101010 11011010111111 11010110101110 1101011100101 11110101011000 10011111010101 11110111101011 10010010110111 011101101111010 10101111010011 110111011110110 110110101111101 110110111101010 10101111110101 11011101011010 1101110011101 11100101110110 1111111111111 110101101101010 111010100111 11111011111110 1011010110111 11100101111110 11010110110111 110101100111010 10100100111101 11010101001010 0111101011010110 10110111010010 1011110101101 101001011011110 10010101100101 101111110100010 11110101101101 11010110101010 1010010110101 1111111101110 10111100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, of, to, i, have, in, light, thy, with, let, me, my, thee, and, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words folly, all, give, let are repeated.
The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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