This is an analysis of the poem May that begins with:
Shyly the silver-hatted mushrooms make
Soft entrance through, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef cgcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010101 1101 1101010101 110001 1001011001 0111 1101010011 110001 1011110111 1001 1001110011 010111 1111010111 1101 1000110011 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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