This is an analysis of the poem A Shropshire Lad, Ii that begins with:
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX bbcc ddaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100010101 01010101 11010111 1011100 10110011 1001101 1101000101 01011101 11011101 10011101 01011101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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