This is an analysis of the poem Sudden Fine Weather that begins with:

Reader! what soul that laoves a verse can see
The spring return, nor glow like you and me? ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddeee ffccXghhcccc ggcciiaaaa bbccffXXajkkjjii jjll aXccbbiii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,12,10,16,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 10111100111 00101111111 1011110111 11010001000 0111010001 10110011111 1100011101 1101110101 1101010011 1101010101 1011010001 1111010101 1011010101 01011110010 11010001010 01010001110 0111010101 1101110101 1001010001 1111110101 0111010101 11000101101 100101010001 1110000101 01011101001 0111011101 0101110001 1101110001 0101010101 1101010011 1101110101 11000011111 1101010101 1101010111 1111010101 11001111101 0101111101 0101011101 0111010111 0101010001 1111110100 11110010111 10010101100 1101010101 11110010001 11110111010 01010101010 0010110001 110011110101 11111101110 11010001010 1101011111 110111101 1101011101 1100111000 1100011001 0111110101 1101000101 10010100101 1100111101 1001010101 110011110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 396
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 62
  • 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; and, from, of, that are repeated.

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

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