This is an analysis of the poem A May-Day Madrigal that begins with:
The sun shines fair on Tweedside, the river flowing bright,
Your heart is full of pleasure, your eyes are full of light,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111110010101 1101010111101 1111010111101 1101011111111 0111010010001 10111101010111 0101010010001 1111010110101 11010100100001 0111110010101 11111111011101 1111010010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, like, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.
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