This is an analysis of the poem The Austral Months that begins with:

January
The first fair month! In singing Summer’s sphere... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbcdeeffgg a hhiijjeebbkkffkkbb l mmnnjjeeffnnbbff i hhbbkkiiggiioofg e ggggeeggjjggnngg j ffbbjjffggggjjff e iiggjjkkppjjjjkk k iioojjdceeggjjll d d kkXgggqqjjkknnoo d hheaeeggffgggggg dXggggbbffookkeenn
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,1,18,1,16,1,16,1,16,1,16,1,16,1,16,1,1,16,1,16,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1010 0111010101 1101010001 1111110101 1101011100 1001110101 1101110111 0101100001 0111010101 01010101001 1100010100 1010 0111110101 0111010111 0101010111 01010100101 0111010111 1101110101 1101011101 0111110101 11001010111 1101111111 1001010101 1100010101 1101011101 01001010111 01010011101 0110001101 1101010101 11110011101 1 1101010111 1101000101 1101110111 1001010101 0101010111 0100010101 1001000101 1101100111 1001010001 01011010101 0101010111 1101010101 0101011101 0101110101 1101010111 1101100101 10 0100100101 1101011101 0001010101 01010010101 1101011111 0111010101 0101010001 1101110111 0111010101 0101000101 01011110101 0111111101 0101010111 1101010111 0100010100 0101010110 1 1101111111 0101010101 11010101001 01110100101 1001110101 0101110101 1001000111 01011100001 0101010101 0100011101 1101011101 1101000111 0101000101 1101011101 1001110101 0101110101 1 11111001001 0111110111 1111010001 1101000101 1101010101 0111110101 1001110011 1101010101 0111010101 1111010101 1101010101 0101011101 1101010110 0111011111 0111011101 1101110101 01 11001100111 1101110001 10011100111 01110101001 0001011101 0111110001 1101010101 1101110001 11110111001 1111111101 1001100101 1111000101 1101010111 1101110101 0011101011 0101011011 10 01011100111 1101010111 1001111111 01110100001 1101111101 0101010111 0111010100 1111011101 0111010101 1101110111 1001110111 1101010101 1101010110 1101000111 1101110111 1101010101 010 010 1101110101 01010101001 1111010111 1101010101 0001010111 01110011001 1100010101 11001110101 11011101001 11001011101 0111011101 0111110101 0101011111 11010100111 1011011111 1101000101 010 1101110101 1111010101 0101000101 1101010100 1101110111 0101010001 0111100111 0111011101 1101010101 1101011101 1001000101 11110101001 01010111001 0101000101 1101000111 1101000111 010 0111010011 0001000101 1101110101 1111010001 1111000101 1001000111 0101110101 1101000101 100100101011 1101111001 0111010101 10010011101 1111110101 1101100101 11011100101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 344
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 193
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; all, her, of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, her, she, are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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  • summary of The Austral Months;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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