This is an analysis of the poem Late March that begins with:

Saturday morning in late March.
I was alone and took a long walk, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbc defghifgiXibjkliX amfiXicfjlXj hXXjjdjjn mdlbljilk mnfldhadnnehXl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,17,12,9,9,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010011 110111011 11101001 0001110001 011101001 10101101 01010010 111000001 101001010 11100111 111111010 10111011001 011111110 1010100100110 01110110011 11101001 0110010001 1111 1101 10101001 01101111 11100101 010001001 111011010 10101010011 011011 0010101101 00101001 11010011010 010111 11110111 11010111 1110110 0110100 11011010 10110 1010011011 110010 101001 1101111 10000110 0111010011010 110100101 101001001 1010 01001010111 1100101111 1100100 10100 1001010 111101 10001111 011110010 11000010 101010 1101 1110110 01101 110101 1101111 111101 010001010 111010111110 111100101 10110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 350
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, i are repeated.

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

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