This is an analysis of the poem These, I, Singing In Spring that begins with:

THESE, I, singing in spring, collect for lovers,
(For who but I should understand lovers, and all their sorrow and... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcadefgbbeXdeXghijickkkXXkceXhfXeicXXjX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111000101110 1111110110111101 1 111110010011 0101100100111110 1 101011110001010101 11011110101111 1001101010 1101111111011 1010001111 1100100111111 10101001011011100 10 011111101100111 1111111011101111 1 101001111011011 011110010 01001010001111000 10101101001010011 11100101 1101101111110110 100101101 1111101101101 1111110010100010 11111111001110101 10010101 101011100100110 100111 101010110111001 110101010110111 1101011110101010 11100011011010 1001011111110100 1 10100111111101001 1111001010111101 10100110001111111100 010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2243
  • Average number of words per stanza: 374
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, now, some, here, of, this, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words now, here, and are repeated.

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