This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of Winter that begins with:

When April with her wild blue eye
Comes dancing over the grass, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbdbdbcaaa eXeccXcfffX eggeeeaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,11,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11000111 1101001 11010111 110101 11011001001 1100101 1001 001001 11011 01101 11011001101 1100101 11011101 110110101 11101101001 10101001 10010101 11010101 11010010 110111011 111111111 101011010 1011101 111110101 10010111 10111010 110111101 00101111001 110011111 010101001 0110101101 010010101 10110111 101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 401
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, he are repeated.

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

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