This is an analysis of the poem It Is A Spring Afternoon that begins with:
Everything here is yellow and green.
Listen to its throat, its earthskin,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXbcXdecXabfeg BaXhihcachbaX BfecBcbcBdcA XaeXaiiciaXajgj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,13,12,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101101011 10001010 011100010 11111010 01100001 1100110 00010101 010111 011110 1100010 01001010 110111 0111001 11010101 10110100 0100 01011111 0101111000 10101011 1110010010 110111001 1010100010 11101100010 111101001 0101011011 10101001001 0010111 101111 0100 0111011 110111 0111100 0100 0110110 1111011 111010 0100 0101101 1011010 101101011 1001001 0101011 01100011 11001001 110101010 10001110 11010010 0100110 0010101010 010011101 001001000 01011001 1101001001 10101010100 10111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 425
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, of are repeated.
The author used the same word because at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of It Is A Spring Afternoon;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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- critical appreciation.
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