This is an analysis of the poem The Northern Spring that begins with:
WHEN the soft breath of Spring goes forth
Far o'er the mountains of the North,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eecc ffgg hhXX Xdhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100111 110010001 111101001 01111101 11010001 11010101 10111111 01110101 10111111 01010101 11001101 11011101 10010001 10110001 11011001 11010001 11110111 010011101 11011111 01110000 1101010010 11010111 01001101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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 then is repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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