You Have Let The Beauty Of The Day Go Over by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem You Have Let The Beauty Of The Day Go Over that begins with:

You have let the beauty of the day go over,
You have let the glory of the noon go by.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd XeXe dcdc fgfg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010001110 11101000111 10011101110 1101010111 10011111010 1101011111 11010100110 1111110101 10111111010 1111111101 11011110100 1101010011 01110111010 0100110101 110011100110 0101110101 11010101110 1101010111 11110111010 0111011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; of, have, no are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.

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