This is an analysis of the poem Another Spring Carol that begins with:
Now Winter hath drifted
To bygone years,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBABCc adadee cfcfee bgbgXb hfhXbX bdbdhh hdhdbb ciciee caXacX Xfafjj ckckXX blXlee ededeeXaBABCc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110 0110 1010100 1101 1100101110 1111001001010 101110 0101 101110 1111 0111101110 0111011010 11010 0111 110010 0101 10101001010 1101001010 010110 1101 01110 1111 11001101010 0101101110 11110 1101 01110 0101 1110101010 0111111010 01111 0101 1011010 1111 111001101110 1101101110 01010 0111 111010 1111 11100101010 11001001010 01110 0111 110110 1101 101110010010 0100101010 01110 10111 11010 1101 111011001110 1111001100 101110 0101 110010 0101 11001011110 101001001010 11010 0101 01010 0101 1101111110 1101011010 11010 1101 11010 1001 1100101110 1101001010 111010 1101 11010 0101 11101110010 1111001010 110110 0110 1010100 1101 1100101110 111100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, more are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words the, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Another Spring Carol;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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