This is an analysis of the poem Coming To Thirst First Upon This Earth that begins with:
The Cherry Blossoms bloom from buds.
To signal the beginning of a new Spring season....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbaXXX cXcdeCF AabCdcF XXcaace
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010101 01000100010110 101001010101 1010110010010 11010101 0010011001 0100110101 0100101001100 010101 001000110001010 1100110010100010 1010000010 100110101 01010101 011010111 00100101001 1010000010 0101010101 1100110010001 100110101 11 011001001011 1011111 010100100 001001010 1011001101 1001001000100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word earth at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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