This is an analysis of the poem In The Year That's Come And Gone that begins with:

In the year that's come and gone, love, his flying feather
Stooping slowly, gave us heart, and bade us walk together.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc aadd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0011111101010 10101111111010 001110111001010 1110101111110 0011111111010 1010111101010 0011101001010 1110101101010 0011111001010 11111010101010 0011101101110 11111111010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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