Analysis of Days
Philip Larkin 1922 (Coventry) – 1985 (Hull)
What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be happy in:
Where can we live but days?
Ah, solving that question
Brings the priest and the doctor
In their long coats
Running over the fields.
| Scheme | XXXAXX XAXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 1111 11111 11111 10110 1111100 111111 110110 1010010 0111 101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 246 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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