This is an analysis of the poem Withered Snowdrops that begins with:
THEY came in the early spring-days,
With the first refreshing showers ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba Xcac defe bghg dgig jkik jlhl hiii ajXj Xjaj fkak akXk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010011 00101010 11101010 00101010 11111011 1110001 11111010 1011111 00101110 1110011 10111110 1010111 10111010 1111111 10111110 1011101 11111010 10111011 111010110 0110101 01101110 1011101 10100110 1010011 11101111 1010001 01101110 1010101 11111010 1110111 11101010 0010001 11100011 1111101 11111110 1110011 11101110 1010111 11101110 1010001 10111110 1111001 11100011 0110011 11111010 1110101 11111010 10101001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; they, its, it, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word its is repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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