This is an analysis of the poem The Child Of The Islands - Spring that begins with:

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WHAT shalt THOU know of Spring? A verdant crown ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbccdcddX bebeeaeaaX bfbffafXaX bbbbbgbgga hcXcccccca cgcggbgbbX ibibbebeeX jkjkkgkggX ckckkckcXl bmbmmamaaa ciciigiggX mbmXbfbffX cncnncnccX memeeaeaoX bcbcXgcXXX hmhmmgmggX kpkppmpmmX gbgbbcbccX cccccXcggX nanaababbX gcgccbcbbX dcdcXlcllX lXlccccccX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,20,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 11110010101 01110101101 11010101001 0101111111 10111101001 11110000101 10110011101 1101010101 0101010100101 1 0110011101 01001010101 1101011101 1100110111 1101110111 10110111001 1111010001 1110000101 111101110101 1 0101110101 0101010111 01010100101 1101010101 0111010101 1001110101 1101011101 1111110110 010101010011 1 0101110101 11010010101 1001010101 0111010101 10011111110 1111010101 1001011101 1011010101 010101110100 1 1100011110 1101110111 101001010101 0101011101 1011110101 0101001101 0101110001 11001110101 0100101110111 1 1011011101 0101110001 1011010101 0101010101 1011111101 0101111101 1111010101 0101010111 110101110111 1 11010010101 10010111001 01110011100 1101010101 111000101 1101110101 1001110101 1011010101 1101011110101 1 1101110001 0011010101 1111000101 1101001101 11110010101 1101010001 11111111001 1101110101 110101010101 1 1101011111 1100011111 1100110111 11010001001 1101111111 1111011111 1101100101 1101100101 1100001011010 1 1100101111 1101111101 0101010101 01011001101 1011010101 11110101111 101010111001 11001110101 1101101100011 1 1101010101 11001110101 11001110101 1111110111 1011010101 11010010101 1100001111 1011110111 0101110100101 1 1011010110 011100111 1101011111 1101010110 0101011101 01010101001 1101001101 1101011101 111111011001 1 1111101001 0001101111 1111100101 1101111111 1001011111 0101101101 1100011101 1011000101 110101010101 1 0111110101 0101000111 1111011101 11101011111 10001110101 0111110111 0101000111 01011100101 010101010100 1 11010001001 1101011101 0001010011 01001111001 11001010101 1110010101 0100111101 1111000101 010101010011 1 11110111110 11110101001 11110101010 11000010101 10010101001 0101110101 11001111101 1111010101 1000111110101 1 1101010101 10001010101 0011100101 1011011101 0101010101 11001110001 10111011101 1011011101 1101001010111 1 0101010101 1111010101 11000100101 010100001001 1111010101 0111010111 1011010101 0111111001 1100101101101 1 1111010101 0111010101 01001000111 0101010101 1101000101 10110010110 01011110101 1101000101 10111111011 1 1101110101 1100010101 1101010111 1101000101 1111010111 1110111101 0111010111 1101111101 101111010101 1 1111011101 0101111111 1011110111 1101010001 1101001101 1101111100 0111110101 1101100101 110101110101 1 1101011011 1111000101 11010011111 1111010101 11011111000 10010010100 11010101110 0101010111 111101110001 1 1111010101 10110111001 1001010101 0101110001 1101100101 1011010111 0101010001 1101100101 010111011101 1 0100000101 0111111111 1111010111 1101111111 110101001001 1001011101 1101010111 11001011101 101101001101 1 1011010101 1111110101 01010100101 01010100100 1011110101 1001011111 1101011101 1001010101 111101010001 1 1111110101 0101100001 1101010101 1001011101 1101110101 0011010101 0001000011 0111010101 110101010011 1 1111010101 0101001111 10010110001 1101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101011101 1100100111 110111110001 1 1111011101 01110011001 1101010011 01110010101 11001010101 0100110001 0100110111 1101011101 110101010001 1 1101010011 1101010010 1101111100 1001010101 1101010111 1111011101 1011010111 1111000101 111111011110 1 01110101101 1101111101 1111010111 1100110101 1101011111 1101110101 10010111001 1111010101 111111110000 1 1101000111 1101110101 1101001111 0010111101 1101010101 1011111111 1101110101 1101111101 011111010101 1 1101111111 101010101 1001101101 1111010001 1111110111 01110011101 1111110101 1101011101 111101110101 1 0110111101 1101000101 1101010111 1101011110 1111011001 01010010001 11010001001 11010101001 010011111101 1 11000111100 1111010101 1101011101 01110010101 110111011 1101011101 1101110001 1011110111 100101110101 1 1101110111 1001010111 10100010111 1011011101 1111011101 1111111100 1111010101 1111101111 111101110001 1 1011100101 11010010011 1101010101 1100110101 1101110101 1011010101 11110100101 1101010101 010101010001 1 1111110101 1101110101 1011110111 0101110011 1111011101 0011110111 010111101 10011010101 111111110101 1 1111010101 1001100101 1001010111 0101110101 1100010101 110100111010 11011010001 1001110101 1101011101010 1 11110011101 1111010111 1101110001 1100010101 11000100101 0101010111 0101010101 1011001101 111111110101 1 0101011101 1101110111 10110010101 1101110101 10111010101 11111101010 1111010101 11011100010 1101010101010 1 1111111101 1111000101 1111010111 1100010001 0101010010 1101110101 1100011100 1101011100 100101110010 1 1101011111 1001011101 1101001101 1101111111 11010011101 1111010111 10111010111 1111000111 0100110111001 1 1101111101 1101001101 1011000111 0101011101 1101111101 1101011101 10011010101 1101110101 110101110101 1 1011110111 1001010101 11010010111 1001010101 1011011101 0101011111 1001011101 1001111110 1101010101001 1 0100010001 0111011101 1011001111 1001110111 1111111101 0101010101 1011110101 1101010111 110000111111 1 11001011101 0101010101 1101110101 1101110101 1111010101 010100100111 1101110111 10010111001 101111110101 1 10010011010 1111010101 101110101010 1101110101 10010010101 11000011101 11001110101 11000110101 011111010101 1 1111111101 1101110101 1011010111 1100110101 0111010101 1101010101 0101110101 1011010101 110101010101 1 1011110101 0111110101 1101110101 11010011101 1101011101 1011011101 01001110110 01001011111 100101110101 1 0111011101 1111010111 10010101001 011010111101 1101111101 1001010101 1101110101 1101010011 110101111001 1 11001111111 11001110101 11010010101 11010010101 0011000101 0111110101 11100011101 0100011101 010101111111 1 1111011101 10110010101 1111010001 1011010101 1111011101 110101111 0101001101 1111110111 110001110101 1 1101000100 0101010101 1001011101 01010101001 0101100101 10111011100 1101010101 1101010101 110100110100 1 1111001111 1101010101 11110000101 0111010101 0101110101 0101011101 1101010101 1001010111 010111110001 1 111111101 1110110111 10110101001 0111000101 0101000101 0110010111 11011000101 01011101001 010111110101 1 10110100101 1101000101 01001010111 1011010101 0101000101 111010001 1001111101 110011001001 101101110101 1 1111111111 0101010101 1101010111 1101110101 11110111101 1100110001 1001010101 11011101101 1101001010101 1 0101010101 1001010101 1011011101 1111010101 1111010101 0101111101 1111001101 11110101001 110101010011 1 100011010001 01011001001 11110101001 0111010111 1101010101 10010110111 1101111111 1111011101 110011110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 60
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 418
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 590
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, her, and, how, his, to, so, 'for, that, your, whose, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, how, and, as, they, what, no, to, in, 'a, 'for, there, or, god are repeated.

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