This is an analysis of the poem A New Year's Song that begins with:
Love and laughter lead you
Down the pathways of the year, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcaca adadXaXa efefcgcg cdcdchch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 1011001 1111011 0010101 11001010 1100101 1101010 0010101 1111011 111101 1111011 010111 1110100 110101 1110010 010111 1111010 110101 1111110 010001 1111010 110010 1111010 1011111 1101110 110111 1101010 110101 1101110 110111 1111010 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; may, and, you, be, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, may are repeated.
The author used the same word may at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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