This is an analysis of the poem Twenty Days that begins with:
Twenty days are barely gone,
I was merry all the day.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef bbbd abab cgcg hihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 1110101 1011101 1011111 1110111 1010100 1011101 1110100 1010111 1000111 1010101 1100101 1011101 1010101 1011101 1010100 1011101 1001110 1110101 1010101 01100111 01111111 1110101 1110011 1011101 1010111 1000101 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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