This is an analysis of the poem Year After Year: A Love Song. that begins with:

YEAR after year the cowslips fill the meadow,
Year after year the skylarks thrill the air, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbc dddd eded bfbf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101011 1101011101 11010111011 10111111110 11011111010 1110100010101 11010111110 110111110111 11111101010 11011100101 10010110010010 110100101110111 1011011011010 1110101011101 100110111010 10011011111 1101110101110 011101010110101 1101110111010 11110111111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; year, after, or, of, its are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word year is repeated.

    The author used the same word year at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • history of its creation;
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