This is an analysis of the poem Spring In The South that begins with:
Now in the oak the sap of life is welling,
Tho' to the bough the rusty leafage clings;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac adXdaeae fbfbdddd aXaXghgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101010 1001010101 11010101110 1101110101 11100100110 111101010101 11101101010 111001111101 111011000010 10001110101 11011001010 1101110101 11011111010 1001010101 11010100010 10101000101 11010101010 1101010001 10010101010 1001010101 11010101010 10110010001 111010101110 010101001110 10011100010 1001110001 10111101010 100010101010 101111010010 10111110111 10111101010 111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 363
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; love, his, of, your, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word now is repeated.
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- summary of Spring In The South;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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