This is an analysis of the poem April that begins with:

GREEN o'er the copses spring's soft hues are spreading,
High wave the reeds in the transparent floods,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbbdbdaeaecfcf aaaadgdgaXaXacacaeaehchcijijXdbdXajaj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,37,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110010111110 1101000101 01011101010 01101010101 11010101010 0111010101 11010101010 1101010101 11010101010 11110011101 01111111110 1101010101 11110101010 1101110101 11010111010 0101010101 010100101010 1111011101 11011101010 1101011101 11110101010 1101010111 10010100010 11010101001 11110111011 1101010101 110110101011 11110101111 10111110010 1101010111 11010100110 1101010110 1101001010010 1001010101 01010100110 0101110101 11010101010 1001010101 110011111110 11011010101 11010111010 01101010101 11010101110 1101011101 11110101010 1111010011 110100101110 11110001011 10011111100 01011100101 10110001010 1101010101 01011101010 0101011101 11000101010 0101011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 859
  • Average number of words per stanza: 147
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; me, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thus, the are repeated.

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  • summary of April;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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