This is an analysis of the poem Budding-Time Too Brief that begins with:
O LITTLE buds, break not so fast!
The spring's but new. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbaXb cdddccd efffeefXfcccffc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 0111 01010101 1101 11111101 10110100 1101 00110001 0111 01010101 1110 10111101 11001111 1101 01110111 0101 11001111 1111 11010101 11010101 1101 11011101 1101 11111101 1101 01111101 01110001 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; , and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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