Cxv: Spring by Alfred Lord Tennyson: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Cxv: Spring that begins with:

Now fades the last long streak of snow,
Now burgeons every maze of quick... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba caac deed fddf gggg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 110100101 010100111 110101001 11011111 010101001 11010101 01010101 11011111 01110101 110100101 11011101 11010111 01010111 01011111 01111111 01011011 011011101 01110100 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word now is repeated.

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

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