This is an analysis of the poem An April Day that begins with:

When the warm sun, that brings
Seed-time and harvest, has returned again,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab caca dada eaea aaaa bfbf dgdg hdhd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 101111 1111010101 101010011101 0110001 110101 1101110011 1111010101 010101 001101 0101010011 1100010101 010101 010101 1001011101 1100111101 010100 101111 0101010111 0110010001 110101 110101 00110110101 0101101101 1101001 010001 10111100111 1011110111 110101 1101001 0101011111 1111100101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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 is repeated.

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

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