This is an analysis of the poem Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day that begins with:
Calmly we walk through this April's day,
Metropolitan poetry here and there,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbabcdaaEfe EcEecfeeae cbcebagdX gXabEeaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,10,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101110101 10100100111 001110110 010100101 1000111001 0101010101 10011100 001110101 101111001 10010111 00010111 0101110100 1100100111 00010111 10010101 11111111 111101101 01001101111 01110100 0101011111 00010111 100010001101 1100100111 10011101 101101100 111111100 11101 1111 0111100011 1101100101 111111111 111011100 101100101 0111001010 10010010101 11111111 11111111 11000101101 0101000101 10010111 100100111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 391
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, time are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word burn at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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