This is an analysis of the poem In May that begins with:
Grief was my master yesternight;
To-morrow I may grieve again;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaab caac daad ebbe bffb ghhg diiX diidXiaai
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110100 01011101 11010101 011101 01000101 01010101 01000111 011111 010010001 01010101 01000011 010001 01001101 11010101 11010101 110101 011111001 01011111 01010101 010111 11101111 010001111 110010011 010101 11010011 10010101 10110100 110100 01010101 01010111 01010101 111111 11110101 10010111 01011111 1100100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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