This is an analysis of the poem April Antidotes that begins with:
In the nonage of the year,
When anemones appear, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXcb ddbccb eefbbf ccghhg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010001 1100001 10010011111 11101110 10101010 10110010011 10101010 10101010 00101011101 10101010 10101010 10101010101 1010101 1010001 10101010101 10111010 10101010 10111010011 1111001 1010101 10100110001 11101110 10100010 001000101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, when are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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