This is an analysis of the poem The Meadow that begins with:
Here when the cloudless April days begin,
And the quaint crows flock thicker day by day,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbccb cacadeed adadcffc agagahha hihicddX jkjklaal dhdhdhhd hXhXeffe kgkgkiik gmgmbnnb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 1011110111 1001000101 1011110001 1011010101 1100010100 1011010101 010011100101 1011110100 10101010001 01010101001 01111100001 11010111001 11010010110 1100111101 10110101001 011100011 1001010111 0101010101 1101010101 10110010111 1001110011 0111010011 1011010101 11010011011 0101011111 11001100111 10010011111 1011010111 01110001001 1111100101 01010101001 1101010101 1011110101 01001001101 1100110101 0111010011 1101010101 10010011100 00110101000 1100010101 1111010101 0111010101 0101000101 0011010101 1111111111 1101110101 0111011101 0101010111 11010000101 1110110101 1111110101 1101010111 1011011101 0011011111 1011010001 1111010101 0111010110 0111010101 0111010001 1011010101 1101010101 1111101101 01001011101 0100111111 1111011101 1011011101 0101010001 0101010101 11010100101 1101010111 1001000101 1111110101 101101010010 10001000101 10010011110 1111011100 1001001101 1111111101 0101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 80
- 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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word here at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Meadow;
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