This is an analysis of the poem Late Spring that begins with:
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Ah, who will tell me, in these leaden days, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbcbcbbbdededfggfhghighhihaajhhhhX X bkbkabaabddbfbXhbbXlXlccfmmfgg XXghghmdmdbgffbjhjh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,34,1,30,19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1 1101101101 1010101 111101010 0100111 11110101010 0101010101 11010111 010101 01111101 0110111 110101 0101110111 110111 0101000101 11110101 110101 1111010101 110100111 0101010101 100111 11010110011 111101 1110001101 1101000101 1001010101 01011100101 0111010101 11101111101 1001001101 0101010101 1001010111 1011010101 1001111101 10111101110 1 1110010101 1101110101 110111 0101000101 01000011 11111101010 110111 1001010101 11000101010 10001111001 1111010101 0100011101 0101110001 100101 10010101110 01010101 0101110101 1001001 0101000 1101111111 1011110 0111010101 01110100010 110011101010 011001 0101010101 1000100 110101 01001011111 0101110001 1 111101 11111111 11110000101 1101110101 11010111101 0101 10010010011 1111 10010011001 110101 011011 011101 1101110001 1111010101 1101111101 11000011101 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 517
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, rain, wait, what are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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