This is an analysis of the poem First Sunday After Epiphany that begins with:
Lessons sweet of spring returning,
Welcome to the thoughtful heart!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccc ababddee fgfgcchh aeaeiiii jkjkjjll aiaiXXXl acacmmhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001010 1000101 11111110 10111011 0110101 10100101 1010101 10110111 11101110 0010101 111010010 1010111 100101001 100101001 1000101 1101101 11101010 10111001 10110010 10101001 1111111 11100111 1011101 1011101 10111110 1010101 100101110 10011101 1110111 1010101 10101001 1011101 10101010 1001101 111011010 1010101 11110010 00101110 1001111 10111011 00101010 1010111 10101010 1011101 1010111 10000101 1110010 1010101 10101110 0010101 11101010 1111111 1000101 1001101 1110101 10101101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; every, and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word every is repeated.
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