This is an analysis of the poem The End Of March that begins with:

For John Malcolm Brinnin and Bill Read: Duxbury
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X Xabcdeecfdg heeXciheXggg ffchXedfidffdgXajXkdkhldbelX egededccjefX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,11,12,28,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010111100 0111101001 01011111 101101111100 10011101010 100111 010010111 1110111 0100010 001101001 11101010010 001101 011101010 0101001011 010110101110 01011111 10111011111 111100111 101001110010 10110100101 01111101 10110010101 1011010101 011111 1100111111011 110111101 11110101 010101001110 100100010 010001110101 011111 10101011100 1100111110 11010100111 1101001101 1111111101 10111101 1010101001 11010100000 11000101 110010011 110100010 1100110010 0111010 101100100 1110101010 10100101 01010101 010110110100 111011111 100111 101011101 1011110110101 011111001 110011011001 011101 01010 11110111111 1010011110001 1110100101 011111010 0111010111 101101011 101110011001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 648
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 66
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; of is repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines , ghost are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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  • summary of The End Of March;
  • central theme;
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