This is an analysis of the poem In Early Spring that begins with:
O Spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise
In the young children's eyes.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXaddeeffbbaaccaXggaaXbbddaaddffaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111111101 001101 1111001101 110100 1101010101 010101 11000111100 1101110 01010001011 110101 1111110111 011111 1111010011 010001 0111110111 110111 11010001010 1011010 11010010111 100100 11010111100 111100 11010011010 0101010 11110111110 1101010 0101010101 0111011 0100011101 010001 1101010111 100111 1111010101 110101 1101011101 100101 1111110100 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 662
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 38
- 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; his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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