This is an analysis of the poem Maiden May that begins with:
Maiden May sat in her bower,
In her blush rose bower in flower, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAbaX ccbcbddede AAbab Xfefe bbcbc ggbgb hhcXc Aaiai ggfgf jjbjb Xklkl bbjbj jXdXd fflfl gXfgf aajaj ccece jjmjm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,10,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110010 001110010 101 11101110 1101100 1111001 1010101 111 10011001 1000101 1110111 1010001 001 1111011 1110111 10110010 001110010 1010 111001010 10111100 1110101 1011101 1011 1110111 1110111 10001101 1010101 101 1011101 1110101 1110101 1110101 101 1010101 00100001 11101010 10101010 101 101011000 0010101 10110010 01111010 001 10111010 0011101 0110101 100101 101 10100111 1110111 1010101 1010111 111 1111111 1011101 11101011 10101010 111 10111010 100111001 100101001 1111111 111 10010011 1011111 1011110 1101100 101 10110000 1011001 1000100 0010111 111 1000100 0111011 101010100 111011000 101 101110100 1010101 10110110 10101110 101 101010010 1011101 1011111 1011101 111 11001001 1100011 1010101 1010101 101 1110101 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 112
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, this, stay, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words spreads, bright, close, stay are repeated.
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- summary of Maiden May;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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