This is an analysis of the poem The Day Is Coming that begins with:
Come hither lads and hearken,
for a tale there is to tell,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaa bcdc deXe ffdf edfd ghgX idXd Xdgd jfkf klgl jdmd baba kdkd inon khgh cc fcgoXo gckc jaba Xdid mjXj fhih dmem jdad gmbm aaXaXgngn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 1011001 00100101011 101011 1011010010 01001001 1111010 001111000 11110010 00111101 11110010 1100101 1111110 001101 1111010 1010111 101111101 101001001 11110010 1111001 1011010 111111 10101010 1010110 11101010 1111101 00101111 0110111 11101010 110001 11101110 111111 11110010 111111001 1011110110 11111101 111111101 11111011 11011110 101001101 11111011 111101 01010010 111101 11101010 10101101 101101110 1010111 10101010 0100101 101110110 1010101 10101010 10100101 10101010 111111 111101111 1110101 001101010 00110111 11101110 11101001 001000110 111101 111111110 111101 100110010 101110011 111111110 1110111 1110010010 010111 1111011 111111 11001010 011101 11011100 010111 11001010 110101 1111011010 1111001 11001010 11101011 001110110 110101 101110010 10111001 101010010 11100001 11101110 1010101 1111111 010101 11010010 0100101 11111110 111111 10101010 1001101 11001010 011111 1101011 1011101 1111110 101111 101101010 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, those are repeated.
The author used the same words and, come at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Day Is Coming;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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