This is an analysis of the poem Frost In May that begins with:
March set heel upon the flowers,
Trod and trampled them for hours:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabba aaccd eecce ffggf ddccd aahha iiXXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 11100110 1110101 1110101 100001110 1010101 1010101 1011101 1011101 1010101 1010101 1010111 0010111 1010111 1010101 1011001 0010001 1110111 1111100 1010101 1010101 1011001 1011111 1010111 1010101 1101101 1110101 1110111 1101101 1010101 1010111 1000111 1010100 1111100 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, he, his, her, mourn, leave are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words mourn, leave are repeated.
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