This is an analysis of the poem Sport In The Meadows that begins with:

Maytime is to the meadows coming in,
And cowslip peeps have gotten eer so big,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcXccdcedcaXaecdcdfefegfghghfXdcdcidiXiddXdXgigXigjgjXjXiX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 62,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1000011100 1101110111 1101111101 1101010101 1011011100 1110010111 1001111101 1101010101 0111110101 1101001101 1101010101 1101111101 1111001101 1111010101 1111111111 1101010100 0101010101 1101010101 0101110011 1101010101 1111011101 0101110111 0111011001 0101110101 1011010101 0101010101 01010101010 1111111101 01010101010 1001011101 1011010101 0111000111 1101010101 1101110101 1111011111 1111010101 1111110101 1111010111 1101110101 1111110101 11011101001 1111010101 1111100101 1101110101 1111010101 0101110110 1111010101 1101111100 1111010101 0101011101 11010100101 1001010111 1001110111 1111011101 1111011101 0111000111 0111011101 0101001100 1100010101 0101110101 1101011101 1100011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2641
  • Average number of words per stanza: 491
  • Amount of lines: 62
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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, some, for, her, one are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, one are repeated.

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  • summary of Sport In The Meadows;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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