This is an analysis of the poem Spring's Welcome that begins with:
WHAT bird so sings, yet so does wail?
O 'tis the ravish'd nightingale. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddeEE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 110100100 11111011 11011111 11111111 11011111 111011101 01110111 11010101 11010101 11010101 110100001 110100001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 489
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jug, hark are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word cuckoo is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines spring is repeated).
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- summary of Spring's Welcome;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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