This is an analysis of the poem Holger Drachmann that begins with:

Spring's herald, hail! You've rent the forest's quiet?
Your hair is wet, and you are leaf-strewn, dusty…...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaccdeedfafa ghhg cddc abab Xffe dXdi hdjjd kiki Xldlahha
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11011101010 11011111110 011010 111010 1101100111 1101111111 01011101111 10011111110 11010101010 01011101111 1101110101 1101111101 1101110101 10101010101 1111010111 01011001011 11010111011 0111010101 1111010111 0101010111 1101011101 0101011101 1101010111 10110111010 0101110101 01010101010 11111001110 1101111101 1101111111 01111101010 1111111011 01110101010 1101110111 11010111010 1000111101 0010011100111 0100110101 0100010111 1111011111 10010101010 01010011010 10111111110 01110101010 11011001010 010101111 1011001101 1110110111 01110100010 111 1 0111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • 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; you, as, we, of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.

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