This is an analysis of the poem In Praise Of May that begins with:
May is a fancy month, a flower month,
The month of buds, the month of scents, the month of colors,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcbdeffbfXdXgefdXbebXgcbfbXXbbdhcabXhXXf X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010101 0101010101010 0101010100 010110010011 111010 011011 1110101 0100110100 01110111 010110 0110010010 11010100 0100101 0111011 0011101001100 10111 101011010 010101111 10111 01001110 0101010 0110100101 10111011 1101001110 011001010 010101010101 0101111001 1010111 010010101 111011 0101101001 010010101 010011 1001011 11010101010 111101 001100100010010 0010001000100 1111 01110100 11010111001 001101 0101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 762
- Average number of words per stanza: 138
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; month, of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of are repeated.
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- summary of In Praise Of May;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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