This is an analysis of the poem Russell Kincaid that begins with:
In the last spring I ever knew,
In those last days,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbbXaaXXXcdXceXdfef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001011101 0111 110001010 1011010010 011101 10110101 0010111010 1101110010 01010010010 100101 1111011010 101110101 1100110101 1101010010 10010101 1111111011 1101001010 0100110101 111100001 111100101 10101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 763
- Average number of words per stanza: 142
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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