This is an analysis of the poem The Spring Romance that begins with:
The river else doesn’t wholly reign,
But pale-blue ice is drowned now;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX cbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01011101 1111011 1111101 1111011 101101 11010101 11110111 111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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