This is an analysis of the poem The Tears Of Old May Day that begins with:
Led by the jocund train of vernal hours
And vernal airs, uprose the gentle May; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc dede dcdc cfcf gfgf ghgh aiai jfjf aaaa cbcb aXaX heheXahah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010101010 1101100101 10111101010 11010000101 0101010101 1101010101 01001010101 0101000111 01001010101 0101110111 0101110101 11100101001 1001010011 0101001101 0101010101 1111000101 1111010111 01010011101 10011101001 1011000101 0011010101 1011001001 1111010101 0101010101 11010010101 01011010101 1101110101 1011010101 1111010101 11001010001 11010101001 0011010101 1111100101 1101010101 1101010101 1101000101 1101010101 1101001001 11110001001 11010001001 1101010101 10110100101 11001010101 1101010101 11010101001 1101010101 1101110101 11010101110 1101110101 1101010101 0111010101 010100110001 0111100101 0101010101 0101001101 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, my, and, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, with are repeated.
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