This is an analysis of the poem Rebecca Wasson that begins with:

Spring and Summer, Fall and Winter and Spring,
After each other drifting, past my window drifting!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabXcXbdccXbXbceccXebffXfXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011101110101 1011010111010 11111001001110 001010101111 00101110101011 1101111111 1001001101010 101001101101 110101001001 001001100111 1111101001011 11110111001 011010111111 1111010010010 110100111010 1110010100101 111101110010 10010010101 11001010111111 1101111 1111 11111100110 101101111001 10100101011110 1111010101001 11111011101 101110011010110 001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1352
  • Average number of words per stanza: 259
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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, of, day, all, in are repeated.

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

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