This is an analysis of the poem Spring On Mattagmi that begins with:

Far in the east the rain-clouds sweep and harry,
Down the long haggard hills, formless and low,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd XeceXfgh ijijgggg gkgXljlj mlmlllll knknjhjh ihihdoXo inXnkiki pgpgijij kqkqdqdq cdcdkjkj kfkfXjij chchinin kkkkXhdh Xjijgopo
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010111110 1011011011 10010111110 11110111001 1101011010 1101010101 110100101010 101011101 101100101110 11110100101 110110101010 1011010111 11111101010 1111010101 111111101010 10111110011 11110111010 11110110111 101110101001010 100101010110 1111111110 111010111100 111010111110 1011111010101 1001011010010 111010010101 1011011101010 0110111001010 100111001010 101010100101 1111010101010 11011000111 11011100010 00101101010101 101011011010 1001010101001 01111100011010 1001001110111 11110101010 1110110101001 111010001110 110111110111 11000110101110 1100010111101 1101010101110 100111111011101 01110110111110 11110101010001 11011100111100 101010101001 111110101110 11111110001 111010110010 1011111111 111111011110 100110110101 011011101010 1110010101 1010101110111 1010101111 10010111110 101011100110 10010101010 100110111010 111010100010 1010101000101 10101010101010 1010100010001 10111101010 0011110101 110111011010 00101010110111 1110110101010 00101010101 11100101010 10101101010001 11111010101110 10101110101 101011101110 010100010111 10010101110 10101011101 1011101010 100010110101 111111001010 11111110101 111110101001010 110110110011 101110110010 111110101 10011101010 10111010011 11010101100 111111101 11011100110 1110101001 1111110101010 111010101 1111110101010 111111111 100110101010 111011101101 11011101110 11111010101 10011101010 1011111111 11110101010 10101010101 11101101110 11111111101 11101111010 11110111011 1011101010 111101110001 110100101110 1010110101 101011111110 100011100101 11111101110 1111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 396
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 120
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, let, me, to, her, like, in, i, she, all, love, for, with, mine, than are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words soon, let, she, and are repeated.

    The author used the same words once, she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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