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

Over the dripping roofs and sunk snow-barrows,
The bells are ringing loud and strangely near,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaacca ddeffe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10010111110 0111011101 0101010111 101101010010 100110001010 1001010111 0111011101 10011101110 10111011010 01110111010 1101001101 10111100101 1001110111 1101101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, of are repeated.

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

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  • summary of March;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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