This is an analysis of the poem The Half Of Life Gone that begins with:

The days have slain the days,
and the seasons have gone by... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdedefgXgdbhbcchcijXjahkhgcgcdcfcbfaffhdh ablbgmbmeabadabamd nddnnnakakdhch igegcdXdXKXk obcbfodomfbfbMXmAdedXcdc ihphhKdkidldollldcachblbXfefiMdmAaaacbgb anXnejejecpcXcac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,18,14,12,24,40,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011101 1010111 11101001 1110111 1111111 111001101 1101101 101001001 10100111 110101 1110101 0100101 101001101 111011001 1100111 1010101 0111001 1010111 10100111 1101001 101110010 1010101 11110101 10101001 1111101 110101 1110111 1110100 1111100 101001001 010001011 10111011 011101 10101011 10101001 00100101 11101001 101101011 0101111 11101111 1101111 0011101 11111001 111111 1101101 10110101 0011111 1110111 11101010 1111001 1111101 1101111 111110100 0010001 1111001 01101011 11001110 1101001 0101111 10101111 110101 1101011 1101011 11001001 1101001 1100101 100111 0010101 1100111 01101101 1101001 11110111 1111101 1011101 10101101 1010111 11001110 1001111 10101110 1011001 1111101 1101001 11100110 001001001 01001101 10111101 11111001 11001011 1111101 11101001 11101110 111001101 1011001 1011011 1010101 1011101 110111010 11101101 1011011 111011001 11111001 1100101 110011100 1110111 1011101010 1101111 0101110 1010101 1101100 111111 001001101 1010101 111011110 01001101 1110010010 0010101 101111101 10111101 11101010 11110111 11101110 11111111 1111101 10101101 11111111 1011111 11011010 1101101 011111 1111111 1110010011 1011111 11101110 1101101 011011010 101001001 00111110 011111 1010010010 1110111 101101010 1100101 11011101 11100111 1011101010 1101011 1111010 11111001 10101001 111111 11110111 010110 111111 1101001 11101110 11011001 11011110 00101101 1101010 1111011 111110010 1110110 1111010 111111 1111101 110111 0111011 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 773
  • Average number of words per stanza: 159
  • Amount of lines: 168
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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, i, to, of, in, my, her, no, she, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, comes, no are repeated.

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