This is an analysis of the poem Prelude that begins with:

Between the green bud and the red
Youth sat and sang by Time, and shed... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbababcc ddeededeff gggggggggg hhXbhbhXbb ffggfgfgii ffXgfgfgjj eXbbebXbcc aabXababkk bbkkXkbkaX aahhahXhXa bXaXbabXbX jjXjjjjjlX mmnnmnmnXa jjggjgjgmm mmggmgmghh aahhahahaa ffllflflmm jjiijijiffXmmnnmnmnkk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011101 11111111 011101011 01110111 01010111 010010100 10010111 11011011 11110111 111100101 010110110 110111110 01011101 11111101 110100010 11111111 101111110 01110111 01111101 11010011 11111101 110100111 11010111 11110101 10110011 11110001 11001111 11010101 11010111 011011001 11111011 01011111 11111000 01010001 10011101 01000101 10110111 0010011000 11111111 11110101 01010001 11011111 11111111 11010111 11111111 11010101 01110111 10110111 11101111 11011111 010101011 11110111 1011010 11010100 11110101 01111111 111110101 11111111 11110011 11110111 11110111 01011100 11110101 110111001 11111111 11111111 10110111 010010111 11010111 01111011 1110011111 011101111 11110101 111110000 1110010111 10010111 101100111 101010100 110111111 01111000 1001111110 010111010 1101010011 101011111 110011110 111010111 110101110 11011111 11011011 110111110 11111111 11101101 11110111 11010111 11110101 10111101 111101000 11010011 110001100 01111111 11111111 0100010 10111111 01100100 11110100 101100001 10010101 10011001 11010101 010011000 10111101 110001001 101100100 10110111 11011101 010101011 11110101 10011101 110010101 10010101 11010011 11000101 11010101 010110001 11111101 11101111 11010101 11011111 01010111 11011111 11011101 010101011 010100101 11111111 10111101 1011110111 101110101 10110101 10110001 11111101 01110111 1110100 01010111 01110111 11110011 11011101 10111111 010010001 11011101 11010011 10111101 11111101 01110101 11110101 111110101 11011101 001010001 10111111 11010111 10010101 110111001 11010111 01011101 11011101 11010101 11010111 01010101 11011111 11111111 11111101 01011101 01110011 11111111 01011101 11101111 11010101 11011101 11110101 11010101 01111011 01011111 10101111 11011101 01111101 111101111 11111111 11011001 101100101 101101111 01010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 379
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 190
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, what, more, her, so, of, or, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, and, or, more, we are repeated.

    The author used the same words between, he, a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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