This is an analysis of the poem To The Month Of May (From The Cantigas) that begins with:
Welcome, O May, yet once again we greet thee!
So alway praise we her, the Holy Mother,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabXcdXeffecXXbaXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101111 11011001010 11011111110 01111011010 10111001110 110110010010 10110111010 101101011000 10111011110 11110111010 00110111110 01011101010 10111101110 10110100110 10011111110 11110101110 10110111010 11001001110 11011111110 01010001110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 885
- Average number of words per stanza: 175
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mother, to, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words mother, to are repeated.
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