This is an analysis of the poem May Banners that begins with:
In the bright lime-tree branches
Dies a fainting mort. But lively song...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaa cDefga hdhe igjhj eeFbe ad cagcDf adXeig jhjeXeFbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,4,5,5,2,6,6,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011110 101011101 100101010 111111011 1011001 0101101110 01010110 111001111 1101101 10101101 11100010011 1101010 01100100010 1110101110 110111101 1101001 111101001 111010101111 01101010 01101111 1001111101 1010111001 011010011110 11111011101 11001011 110 0100010 0011000101010101 10101101001010 11110101111011010 010101110 01010110 11100101111001101 0010100110101111 1100101001100100010 111101011 110111101 0011010001 1010001101 11101010111 0110111110 11101111 101011101 10111001 011010011110 11111011101 11001001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; at, to, laugh, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, , and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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- summary of May Banners;
- central theme;
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- history of its creation;
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