This is an analysis of the poem The First Spring Day that begins with:
THE sunshine died long ago,
Stifled out long ago,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aababcca ddedeffd aagaghha iibibddi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111101 101101 10100111 1110101 1110110101 001101011 1110111101 1110111101 11101010 1101010 10101001 11011010 1111100111 101001001 1110101111 11101110110 0111101 110101 10100111 11010111 11001000111 101011011 11001101001 110001100111 0111101 1001001 10101011 0101101 10100110101 101001010 01011001001 1111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 295
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; and, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and 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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ago, heaven, anew, earth are repeated).
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- summary of The First Spring Day;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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