This is an analysis of the poem Chorus From 'Atalanta' that begins with:
WHEN the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,
The mother of months in meadow or plain ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXXab Xcacccac dededdde dadabbda acacdfac cgcXggcgXfafaaafa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001111010 1100101111 101111010 110111001 1011100100 01011100 10101101010 1100101101 101110100010 101011001 0010111010 1010010101 111101111 1001011011 10111001110 101001101001 11110111100 11110111 11110110110100 1101001101 1011011100 1101100110 101011010100 1011110111 1101110110 110100111 0101010110 111100111 1101001010 1111110010 101101110 1011000101 0111110010 1101001001 0111001110 1101011001 1111111110 101010101 1011001010 111110111 111111011 100110111 1001011001 11010100 11111111 010100101 110101101 110100101 0101001001 100111001 01110111 111100001 0111001001 1010101011 0011100111 111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 394
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, with, feet, her, flower, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, the, and are repeated.
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