This is an analysis of the poem The Day Of Days that begins with:
Each eve earth falleth down the dark,
As though its hope were o’er;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa bcXc bdcd dede Xada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 110101 11011101 010101 11011111 011101 101100101 110101 11011111 110111 11111101 011111 11111101 1100111 11010111 110101 00111111 110111 01110111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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