This is an analysis of the poem The Lover’s Song that begins with:
When Winter hoar no longer holds
The young year in his gripe,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbXbccdcDdD aeaXbabaefeFfF gagaagagfhfHhH aiaidjdjXeXEeE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 011001 11010101 110111 11010101 1000111 11111001 111001 11100101 111111 11010101 010101 01 010101 110100101 110111 11110111 011101 11010101 110101 11010101 010111 11000101 011101 01110101 111001 01 111001 11010101 110101 11010001 110101 01010101 010111 11010111 110101 11000101 010111 01011101 110111 11 110111 11010101 110101 11111111 011101 11011111 011111 11010101 110101 11000101 011101 11010111 110101 01 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 416
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, hay, her, their, his, own are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines maid, hay, no, own are repeated).
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- summary of The Lover’s Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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