This is an analysis of the poem On The Backwardness Of The Spring 1771 that begins with:
IN vain the sprightly sun renews his course,
Climbs up th' ascending signs and leads the day,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eeea fefX cece egegXgbgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010101 11101011101 1101010101 1101010101 01001010111 1100101001101 1101010101 1001110101 010010101010 0101010101 11010101010 1101110101 1111010101 1101010101 1111010101 1101110101 1111110101 11010100010 1001010111 11010101010 1011010101 1101010101 01001010101 11010111001 0101010101 11001110111 0101111011 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; no, her, whose are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, her are repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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