This is an analysis of the poem Four Springtimes Lost: And In The Fifth We Stand that begins with:

Four springtimes lost: and in the fifth we stand,
here in this quiet hour of glory, still, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaabaaaXaacXdeaaXecdeffcggdhcghd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001100111 10010100101 1100101 01001100101 0111000100 1101010101 110111 0101110111 1001011101 1010110111 11110111 110101 1110010100 1111110100 1011111111 110101 011101110111 11011010101 11101 110010001101 1111110100 0110001101 1111010100101 010101 1011010101 11010101001 1001000101 111111010100 11011100110 10101111001 110101 11010101110 01011001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1343
  • Average number of words per stanza: 233
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; in, and are repeated.

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