This is an analysis of the poem As Spring The Winter Doth Succeed that begins with:
May 13, 1657.
As spring the winter doth succeed,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXcdcdbabXXebefafaXebe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 101010101 11010111 01110101 11111110 11010101 11110101 1111101 01111101 11011111 110101111 10110101 11111100 11010001 01100101 1110101 10011101 11111100 110110 11011101 11010101 11011111 01110001 11110111 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 831
- Average number of words per stanza: 160
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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