This is an analysis of the poem O Heart Of Spring that begins with:

O HEART of Spring!
Spirit of light and love and joyous day, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXbcAA AdaddaAA AeaeeaAA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001 1001111101 110101010010 1101101110 101110111 1111110 1011001100 11001 11001 1001010101 10111101110 0111110101 0111111101 10111101010 1011001100 11001 11001 1101010101 100001000110 1111111001 0101010111 11110101010 1011001100 11001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 996
  • Average number of words per stanza: 156
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; thou is repeated.

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