This is an analysis of the poem April In The Hills that begins with:

To-day the world is wide and fair
With sunny fields of lucid air,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabcccb dddefXfe ggghdddh dddidddi jjjbdddb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010111 01010101 11010101 010111 01010101 11010101 01010111 010111 01010111 110010111 01011101 010111 01110101 110101100 01010111 1011101 01110101 01011111 01110101 110101 01111111 01110101 01010101 1010111 11010101 010000101 11010111 110111 01111111 01011101 11110011 1100101 11010011 110001001 11011001 110111 010000101 110100101 01110111 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • 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; and, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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