This is an analysis of the poem How hast thou lost, O month of honey and flowers that begins with:

How hast thou lost, O month of honey and flowers,
The voice that was thy soul! Creative showers,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaXaabbccaaaaddeeffaaeeggaaXXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111111010110 01111101010 0101111101 10111101001 11001011101 1101111010 010110101001 1111000101 1110111101 0101110101 1100010101 0101010101 11110010001 01010011111 1101010101 1001010101 1111110001 0101001110111 1100011101 111110111 11111100110 110111000111 1101110111 1101110111 11101110011 0101010001 0101011101 0101001111 01011101110 10010111010 1100110111 1001110101 11010010101 0101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1507
  • Average number of words per stanza: 273
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • 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, o are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, o, your are repeated.

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