This is an analysis of the poem April that begins with:
Pale season, watcher in unvexed suspense,
Still priestess of the patient middle day,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcc adaddee cfcfXgg hihiicc igiggff jkjkkcc fkfkkXX hbhbbff hghggff gdgddhh cbcbbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010010001 1100010101 0111010100 1011001101 1101011101 10010010111 01001000001 1100011101 1111010101 1111001111 0111000101 0101111101 1111011101 1001011101 01110100111 11110010101 0101110101 0101010011 1011010100 0101110101 01110101001 1011011111 1011011101 10011101011 1100111111 0011010111 10011011100 10010100001 1101010101 1101110001 1011001101 100101101111 0111001111 1001110101 0101000101 0111001111 0101110111 0111100101 01001101111 01010101101 0101010111 1100010101 0011011111 1011010101 1101010101 1101010001 1001011101 01110101001 1101100101 1111001001 1011001101 1011010101 0101010101 0101010111 010011011001 0111001101 1001011101 0101010101 1111111101 0100010011 11110001101 1101110001 1111001101 1001011101 1011110101 1101001111 1100011111 010101001001 0011110101 10110101011 1001110111 1011111101 00110010001 1000100111 1111010101 1111100101 01111111000
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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- summary of April;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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