This is an analysis of the poem A Song Of A Spring-Time that begins with:
TOO rash, sweet birds, spring is not spring;
Sharp winds are fell in east and north;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXa aXbbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 11110111 110111011111 111001101 01110111 100111111111 111101001 010111101 1101101111111 0111001101 011011101 110001111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, but, spring are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sing at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase spring connects the lines.
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