This is an analysis of the poem The Masonry Of Spring that begins with:
Men say, 'How wonderful is Spring!'
I say, 'How marvelous is man!' ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabccdd ebebffcc XcXcggaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110001 11110001 101111101 01110101 01110100 11010101 11010101 11001101 10010001 01110111 01010001 011100101 11010101 11010101 11010101 11110101 01010001 11011101 01010111 11011101 11110111 11110101 11110111 011100001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of The Masonry Of Spring;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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