This is an analysis of the poem There Is But One May In The Year, that begins with:
There is but one May in the year,
And sometimes May is wet and cold; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbAbcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111001 10110111 10111001 010111 110001001 010111010 01110111 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; may, year, and are repeated.
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