This is an analysis of the poem An April Fool that begins with:
I sallied afield when the bud first swells,
And the sun first slanteth hotly,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eXeX XaXa fgfg dhdh icic idid ijiX ahah eXeX dbdb fbfb kiki adad eaea kdkd djdj dcXX lhlh mhmh XXXX dhXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100110111 10111010 11110100111 10101010 11110110111 1001110 1100100101 101001010 111111111 111111110 111100101 111001011 1100100101 11001110 1100110101 001101110 0111110111 111101010 1010110101 001001010 1111111101 110001010 1111111111 11101110 110010101 111001110 1111111001 111101110 1110111111 101011110 1111111111 111011110 111110101 111111110 11110110101 10111110 11100111101 11101010 111011111 101001010 111100101 1100101 01010111 00100101 101101101 111010110 111110101 10101110 1111010101 01001110 110101101 001011110 0101101101 10111110 1100100101 10110110 011010101 101011110 0101110111 101101010 110111101 11011110 1111111111 111011110 1110111101 111101010 1100101101 01001010 1111111111 10110010 010110101 01101110 110110101 11111011 111110110 0101111 10111101001 10111010 011101111 111001110 11100111101 10111010 110110111 10101110 110101111 101111111 110010101 111001111 1011101111 11101110 10110101101 10101010
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 92
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, '', i, her, my, she, he, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The author used the same words her, she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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