This is an analysis of the poem Spring In Hampshire: 1916 that begins with:
Blackthorn winter is over and done with
(Pale gold sunsets and brimming rivers,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaabcddec Bebfaadf Bdbggbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010110 111111010 10101101110 11001000110 101110111 1101001110 1001001010 1011110110 0101100111 101001011 1110001010 100111001 1100110111 101001110 1101011010 1001101010 10111110111 101001011 1111011010 1011010111 1101111011 11101001111 011100111 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, in, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word blackthorn at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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