This is an analysis of the poem Spring that begins with:
O the frozen valley and frozen hill make a coffin wide and deep,
And the dead river lies, all its laughter stilled within it, fast asleep.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd ee ff dd dd gg hh bb cc eeXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10101011011010111 10110110101010101 01111001011100101 11001011011111111 11001001110111011 11110111110110101 10100101110111101 01011011011110111 11010010011110101 01001101010101001 010010011110110101 01001010010110101 01001010011100111 110010101110100111 10100101011010101 01011001010101001 01011111011001001 01110110011110101 0100100100111001001 00101001010010111 010010110111001001 01001010010101001 111111001010101011 01101111010100101 11111011010100101 10010110011011001 01111001010101101 11001110011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 73 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, dead, all, of, her, with, in, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word spring is repeated.
The author used the same word spring at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Spring;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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