This is an analysis of the poem Tardy Spring that begins with:

Now the North wind ceases,
The warm South-west awakes;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXab ccccababaXaXdedefgfXhahahihiahahhchXgcgcjcjc aXab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,44,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110 0111100 11010 10101 11011101 11010011 10010111 11011101 110101010 00110101 110111110 11010111 010100111 11010111 10111101 11010101 11000101 11010101 11010101 11110101 111111001 11010111 01010101 01011100 01010111 01110101 10010101 01010101 11011101 11001111 11010101 01000111 01011101 01001101 11010101 11010001 01000111 11010101 11110111 11111101 11010101 01011101 11111101 010100101 0100011101 01011101 11111101 10011101 1101110 0111100 01011010 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 605
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; he is repeated.

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

    The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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