This is an analysis of the poem The Progress Of Spring that begins with:

THE groundflame of the crocus breaks the mould,
Fair Spring slides hither o'er the Southern sea, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdedee fcfcXgggaeaee ghghcigibdbdd Xccccacaajajj cgcXkhkhdbdbb jdjdchchgcXcc lclcgcgcdmdmX ncncmdmdjcjcX dodobabXaaaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0100010101 101110100101 1010110101 1101010001 10111010101 0101110101 110110010101 10001011101 110101001 0111010101 0101010001 1101110101 010101 1101110100 0101011101 01010100110 0101010101 1101011101 1001111101 10010101001 1001010001 101111111 1111110101 0110101111 11110010001 101101 1101010101 1100010101 11011101001 1101011101 1011110101 11010011101 1101010101 1001010001 110111 1111110111 1111011101 1111010101 110101 1101010101 1001010001 11011001110 1101010101 11010101001 01001110101 0111101101 1101011101 101111101 01010111001 1111010101 1111011101 111111 0111010101 0101010101 0101010101 0101010100 1101010111 1101010101 0101011101 1001010101 11010001 10010010001 11010010101 1101010001 010111 1101011111 1101010111 1111010111 1111110101 0101010101 1101010101 1111011101 1111111101 11011101 0101000101 0111010111 1101000101 010101 1011010101 1101011001 1101110001 1111011111 11001111101 01010101010 0111010101 11010101010 111101 01010100101 1011111001 0101010001 1000101 1110111111 0101101101 1101001101 0101010101 1101110101 0101010101 01011101001 11001000101 11111101 1011010111 1001001101 0101010101 101101 01001010111 111100111001 1101010011 1011110111 1101010101 1101000101 1101010111 10110101011 110101 0101110001 1111110101 1101010101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 591
  • Average number of words per stanza: 98
  • Amount of lines: 117
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; her, thy, and, to, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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