This is an analysis of the poem A Spring Carol that begins with:

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Blithe friend! blithe throstle! Is it thou,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcccdeeaadffaXggccahhaciic XiiddidiidXjdjddahkkdccdXillggmnahnmmccaaoo XcccXaaacXikkelelXogcgcoooaaaeeaecgiecceegXppp XcbbceeaaggheenpcbqcbqmXaaooiieeieieX amemefmXfeecceeahaaaeelll
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,43,46,37,25,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1111001 11110111 11110101 10100001 11011111 1111101 0101001101 1110110 1110101 1111001 0110101 101101110101 10010101 1111111 1111111 10010100 1001101 0111100 1111 1111 11011111 10111110 10101010 1010111 100101010 1111101 1000111 1001111111010 1 1110101101 11011111010 10111110 10011010 0100101010101 1010101 10111010 10111010 1011101 10010111001010 110101110 0110001 10101110 1010111 1001010110101 0010011 1100100 1010011 1010111 1011111 11111010 01101010 1010101 11011011010 1101010101 1101000101 1110101 1000101 1010101 10101010 0110101 1010111 10010010 1011101 10011010 11001111111110 11110101 1010101 1011101 1110101 1001111111 010111010101 1 10011111 00111010 000101001 11010101111100 1110111 1011101 101101 101010 1110001 10110101 1111111 11100101 1110101 1000111 1011111 10011101 11101110 00111110 1110111 10101001 1010101 01011001 100111010 10110010 0101011001010 000 0111 1101011101 0111001 1011110011 1101001 1110011 1011111 1101101 1011101 0011111 10101101 1010100 1010011 1010110 1110111 11101000 11101110 1111010 1011111011110 1 11110101 10011101 01110111 11001101 1111111101 1010111 0110001 1010101 1010111 1000100 1111111101000 1010111 01010101 1010111 1110100 10010101 10111011 1011001 11001001 00010101 0101011101 101010010 1010100 1010101 1010101 11100111 1101110 10010111 0111101 1111111 100101001 10101010 10110001 10101010 1110101 11010001101100 1 11111011110 1111101 101001010 10010101 11001001 10101010 1010101 0110010101001 1010101 1010101 1011101 1010011 1110111 10010100 10011111 0110100 1101 1101 10010111 10110001 01011001 0101001111 1010101 111111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 202
  • Amount of lines: 180
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, my, ringing, sing, for, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, is, sing, when are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sing connects the lines.

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