This is an analysis of the poem Those Dancing Days Are Gone that begins with:

Come, let me sing into your ear;
Those dancing days are gone,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdCD efefcdCD ghghcdCD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110011 110111 1111101 10101 1011101 01101 1100100101 0100101 11111101 110001 1011101 010111 11110101 100101 1100100101 0100101 11010101 10101 01111001 110101 11110111 100111 1100100101 0100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word bag at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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