This is an analysis of the poem Song (Untitled #13) that begins with:

Under boughs of breathing May,
In the mild spring-time I lay, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcb ddXcX eeacX ffXcXXffaca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101 00101111 1011111 101111110 11111 1111111 1111101 1111111 101111110 11101 1110101 1111101 1000101 1011110010 10111 1111111 10101011 1110101 1011010010 10111 10101111 1010101 1110101 101111110 10011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The author used the same word nor at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Song (Untitled #13);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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