This is an analysis of the poem Heat that begins with:
Now is it as if Spring had never been,
And Winter but a memory and dream,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acacc X dede Xfdff X gdgd gdgdd X dhdh dhdhh i Xhdh dhdhh i jijiXjajaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,1,4,5,1,4,5,1,4,5,1,4,5,1,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10010011100 1101010011 1101010101 110111 01011010111 0101110111 0101001101 10110100001 100101 1 1101010101 1011110101 1101010101 110111 01010101011 0101110101 0101010101 0111110101 010101 1 0101010111 0111010111 0101010111 110101 1101010111 0101101111 10110010101 0111110011 1000101 1 0111111101 01001111101 10011100111 010101 0101010101 1111010101 001110101 0101111001 0100111 1 10001000111 0101111101 01101101010 011101 01010111010 0101011101 010101100111 0001101101 111101 1 0111011101 0111001111 00110101101 011101 1101010101 0101010111 01010001001 1101110111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, her, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, from are repeated.
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