This is an analysis of the poem The Shepherds Calendar - March that begins with:

March month of 'many weathers' wildly comes
In hail and snow and rain and threatning hums... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccXaccaaddeeffXggXggggaaaahhccaaXaddddiiaaXajjkkaaddllddcaeeggaaaaccddllhhmmeeddaakkgglXbbeellaXaXggnnddggaallggbbmmggggeeeeaaggbbaaffaaeeddggllaaddaaggmmXemmggaXdXggeXooccllaaddXaeemmbbccXgaaaabbXXlleemmnnggddggeellaaXm eaXlddggffppaXXmddllllii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 224,24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010101 0111111101 1111010101 0101010101 1001011101 110011101001 1111010111 10010101001 01001110101 10011001001 0101010111 1011010101 10011101001 0101110101 1101110001 1101010101 0101011111 1011000101 1101000101 0101000111 1001010101 1111011101 1101110101 1111110101 0101010101 11110101001 01001010101 110010101001 110111111 11011010101 1101010101 1101010101 1001110101 11110111001 1111110101 1101010101 110101001100 01010111011 1001110101 10110111001 0101110101 1011110101 01010100010 11010111010 101010111 0101110101 0101010101 01001010101 110111101 100110011 1111110101 11011100101 0101000101 1001010101 1101010101 11001110001 1100010101 0101010101 1011010101 11011001001 0101010101 1101110111 0101100101 110101001 0101010101 111010111 1101010101 10110101001 1111010101 0111010101 0101110111 0101010101 1001010101 1111110101 1111110101 0101110101 1101110101 1111110111 0101110101 1101110101 1011010101 01011100111 1111110001 1111111101 1111011010 11011001010 1111111001 11110111001 11010100101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 11110011001 0011001101 0101010101 10110011101 0101110111 01110101001 0111110101 11011101100 1111110001 11010100100 10010010101 1101000101 0111111101 01010001001 110111101 1111000101 1101010111 11010101001 100110010111 010010101001 1101010101 1100010101 1001010001 1011000101 1111010111 1111110001 01010100101 1111110101 01010100101 1101010001 1101010101 1111100101 0111010101 1011010101 1101011101 0101110101 101101001 0101010101 1101110101 10110100111 1101011111 1101110001 1101010101 11011010001 1101110001 11001010101 1101110101 010011010111 1001011101 0101110101 11011010101 10110110101 1101011101 0101111101 0111010101 1001010101 10110010101 1001010111 1111110101 1101110001 1011110101 10111100101 1001011101 1101010101 0111111101 1001011101 1111110100 1111011101 11001110001 1101010101 1101010111 1111110001 1111011101 010111001100 1101010111 11001100110 1111011101 1001111101 0101011101 11111101110 1100011101 0101010111 1101011101 1001010101 1101101101 1101010101 01010111110 10010111010 0101010111 1111110001 1111010101 1101011101 1101010101 10111101001 0101000101 1101001111 1110110101 0101110101 1101011101 1101010001 1111110100 0101010100 1101010101 0101011111 1011010101 1011001101 1011010111 1111011101 01111100110 1011010110 1111010101 1111110101 1111110101 1101111101 1100011111 1011110101 1111010101 1101010101 10110010101 1011010111 1111010111 1111010111 1111011111 11110010101 0101111101 1101010101 0111111001 1101110111 1001110101 10011100101 1101111110 1101011111 1111001101 10110011101 0101011110 1101110101 1111111101 1101011101 01010110101 1101010111 0111110101 11001110111 1101110101 1111110101 1011010111 11001110111 0101110100 11011101111 1111011101 110101001 1111110111 1101001101 1100110101 1101110101 11011001010 11010111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5390
  • Average number of words per stanza: 980
  • Amount of lines: 248
  • 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, of, their are repeated.

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

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