This is an analysis of the poem Bki:Iv Spring that begins with:

Fierce winter slackens its grip: it’s spring and the west wind’s sweet change:
the ropes are hauling dry hulls towards the shore,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbX Xccd ddXe aeXcXbcdb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101001001101111 01110110101 0111001011010010 11101110101 11001011010100101 10101011001 10011101110111010 0010101010 10101011010110110 1100010111 101010101001111011 10110110101 11100101101001110 11010111011 010110110100101101 10101101010 11010011111011110 00100100111 11011001101101001 11011010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; now, to are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Bki:Iv Spring;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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