This is an analysis of the poem In February that begins with:
Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn,
Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdccdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11000100101 010100101010 11011100010 0101010011 1001001101 01010101110 11011001010 1001011011 010101100101 100011001010 1001001111 1011110111 11011110010 1101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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