This is an analysis of the poem April Thoughts that begins with:
Listen to the laughter of the brook that's racin' by!
Listen to the chatter of the black-birds on the fence!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdeed fefegghffhXhdhdbbabba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,21,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000100011101 1000100011101 1110100011001 11011101010101 10101010 10111010 101010101010101 1101010 10101010 101010101110101 1000100010001 1010101110101 1010100010101 11010100110111 10101011 11111011 111100100010001 11101110 11101110 011011101010001 111011101010101 111011101010101 101010110010111 111100111110101 10111010 00111010 1111101010101001 00101010 11101010 101111101110100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 533
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- 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; of, to, an', you, in, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word listen is repeated.
The author used the same word listen at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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