This is an analysis of the poem An Interlude that begins with:

IN the greenest growth of the Maytime,
I rode where the woods were wet,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba caca dede ffff dgdg Xhfh didi jkjk cccc dldl caca dmdm babaXfbfb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001010010 1110101 01011011 00111111 111001010 10110111 01111110 01001111 11101110 10111001 1011010010 10111101 11001110 1110111 11111010 0111001 101101010 1111101 01001010 1100111 11101110 0100101 010010010 01001001 11001110 0111001 101111010 1110111 101101110 10100111 101001110 10100111 11101110 1110111 1011010010 101101111 101001110 01001001 1010011010 1111101 101001110 0110111 111011010 1111101 11001010 1101011 1110111110 1111101 01101110 1101111 01110010 1110111 101101000 1100101 01010110 1101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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 words the, and, it, i are repeated.

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  • summary of An Interlude;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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