This is an analysis of the poem Lusty May that begins with:
O LUSTY May, with Flora queen!
The balmy dropis from Phoebus sheen ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaB XXbXB ccbcB ddbdB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 010100101 10010101 11010101 11000101 11001011 110101001 11011011001 110111011 11000101 1011001001 010101011 11000101 0100010111 11000101 11001101 01101101 111000101 11011111 11000101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more 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; of is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word may at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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