This is an analysis of the poem In Early May that begins with:
O MY dear, the world to-day
Is more lovely than a dream!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdedXffgcgceehchcii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 0110101 1010101 1011101 1000101 1110101 10110010 1010101 00100110 001011000 1010011 1110111 1010101 0011111 10100101 0110101 1010101 1000101 1010101 1011101 1010001 1010001 1110101 10010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 704
- Average number of words per stanza: 132
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word full is repeated.
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