This is an analysis of the poem Seasons that begins with:
Oh the cheerful Budding-time!
When thorn-hedges turn to green,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXc dededfdf gdgdhihiXgagaffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1110101 1110111 1111101 1011111 1111101 10010111 00100001 1010101 11110111 0110101 1011011 1010111 1110101 10011111 1010101 1010101 1011101 1010111 1010101 1010111 1011101 1010101 1011101 1010101 1110111 1010111 1011111 1111111 0111111 1110101 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 when is repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Seasons;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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