This is an analysis of the poem At April that begins with:

Toss your gay heads,
Brown girl trees;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaXaaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111 111 111101 111110 11111 11111 111011 001110 101 11010101010 101 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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  • summary of At April;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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