This is an analysis of the poem The Golden Year! that begins with:

When piped the love-warm throstle shrill,
And all the air was laden... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abAbcdcdaXAb CBcbXeXecbCB fEfeghghfefE gigibdbdXXgi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111 1101110 01011101 1101110 110011111 1101010 11010101 1101110 10111101 1111010 01011101 1101110 11111111 1111110 10111101 1011010 01010111 1001110 11010101 0101010 10010111 1101010 11111111 1111110 11010101 1101010 11110101 1101010 01011101 01010101 11011101 0101111 11010101 1101010 11010101 1101010 11011111 11011010 11110111 0001110 11110101 1111110 101101001 1101010 11100101 1111110 101011111 101011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 400
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • 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, her, to are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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