This is an analysis of the poem Xvi: Spring Morning that begins with:
Star and coronal and bell
April underfoot renews,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede fXfe gege hfhf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011 1010101 1010111 10010101 1011101 1011101 1010111 1010101 1000101 1010101 1010011 1110111 1010101 1000101 1011111 1010101 1011101 1111111 1010101 1110101 1010101 1010101 1011101 1000101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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, to are repeated.
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