This is an analysis of the poem Spring's Saraband that begins with:
Over the hills of April
With soft winds hand in hand,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXcddd XebefgXg habaiiiX bceXiificghghbhb ijXjakik
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,16,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010 011101 10001101 0110100 0101110 110101 01100101 010101 0101010 001101 1101110 110111 0101010 100101 11010101 011111 1101010 001111 11010101 1000101 0111010 111101 11000101 1101000 0110010 010010 01000111 110110 01010110 110001 01100011 100111 0101110 100101 0101110 110001 0100010 110101 01011101 010101 1111010 1100101 110101001 110101 1011010 111101 00010111 0100001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, with, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, with are repeated.
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