This is an analysis of the poem Calendar that begins with:
To find with you the earliest
Willow-buds before their silver turns to gold,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbccdeaXf efdffXf fdXefe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010100 11101110101 1011001011100110 10100010101 010101 0101010101 110111000110 0101 0101011101 10101010 10111010001 10111010101 00100101 010101010010 1010111 111101 011101010101 10101010011 11110 001100 1101010100111 1101111111 000010101010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Calendar;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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