This is an analysis of the poem A Road Song In May that begins with:
O come! Is it not surely May?
The year is at its poise today.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabba ccddc dddddXbbaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001101 01010101 10110101 001010001 01110101 110101001 11110111 01110001 101010101 10110111 11010111 01110101 011111010 011101010 01110101 11110001 01010101 11110111 11110100 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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