This is an analysis of the poem April that begins with:
The sweetest thing, I thought
At one time, between earth and heaven...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbabcbcXXX deXfXeafaXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111 111011110 1011 1110010 1011101 110101110 11010010 11101101010 11111101010 01010110110 110010001111 01111111111 1111110 11101100 1101 011101 01010 11010100 0001011 111011111010 1111110101 1101001111 1011010100 11011111100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 424
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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- summary of April;
- central theme;
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