This is an analysis of the poem This Affair Belongs To Spring that begins with:

Sweet is the smell of trees.
Budding in the sunlight....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXd aaXX ddbbb ddecedXbaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101 100011 11011 1010101 1000100010 110111 100110 101101 01010101 101101 110110100 1110111 0101110001 111101 10111101 010100111 111011 00100010101 101 00101001 1111 0101 1011 11010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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.

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  • summary of This Affair Belongs To Spring;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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