This is an analysis of the poem Spring Comes! that begins with:

The little birds, they do not heed nor care.
The ungracious wind, the branches sear and bare,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbXccdXddeebbccbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101111111 01001010111 0101000101 1011010111 1011010101 1101110110 1111010101 0101010101 0101111101 0111010100 10011100101 01011000101 1100110101 0101010101 1101110101 0101000101 1101011101 1101110101 1111000101 0111010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 917
  • Average number of words per stanza: 160
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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 is repeated.

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

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  • summary of Spring Comes!;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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