This is an analysis of the poem Easter-Tide that begins with:

With the spring come happy voices
On the street,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb adad aefe ghah figi XaXa jhch fhjh klhl amim knXn cdhXXagag
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 000111010 101 10101010 111 000111010 001 11101010 011 000111010 111 11111010 101 000111111 001 10111010 101 101111010 101 10101010 101 000101110 101 10101011 101 000111110 111 10111010 101 10111010 001 10101110 101 1001101110 101 10111010 101 01101010 101 1110010011 111 1101011 111 10001010 101 000111010 101 00101010 101 101110110 011 11101010 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Easter-Tide;
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