Alison by Anonymous: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Alison that begins with:

BYTUENE Mershe ant Averil
   When spray biginneth to spring, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXaaX XbXbbbbXC bdbdddXXC bebeeeeXC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011100 11100001 01011101 11101 110110 1100011 11111 1001010 11011011 100100011 01101101 111100 111000110 1111011 01011111 11011111 11110101 10110101 10101001 111010 11011100 1011111 11110101 1001111 1001111 01011101 1110111 101010101 110101 11011100 10110111 1011001 1101111 101101 1001011 110101 10101 1011 11011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hire, to are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word etc at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Alison;
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