This is an analysis of the poem Spring that begins with:
The alder by the river
Shakes out her powdery curls;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acdc ceXe cdbd bfaf agdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010 1101001 0111010 110111 0101110 111111 0101010 1101101 0111110 110111 0101010 010111 1101110 110101 1001011 010101 1111010 111111 0101110 110111 1101110 1101001 1101010 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Spring;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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