This is an analysis of the poem In Arcady that begins with:

I remember, when a child,
How within the April wild... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXaaa ccddeee aXffaaa aaeeggg aahhiii jbdXkkk aacceee aahheee aaaakkk jbffjjj Xcjjddd llkkbjX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101 1010101 1110100 0010100 1010101 1010001 1001101 1010101 1011001 1010111 101010001 1010001 10101001 1010001 1110101 10111110 100011 101101 1010101 1010001 1111101 0011101 1010101 1010101 1010111 1011001 1011111 1110101 1010101 1000111 1010101 0110101 1110111 1010101 1011101 10000101 1010100 1110101 1011101 1110101 0010001 1001101 1110101 1011001 1110111 1011101 1011101 0011101 10011100 1011101 1011101 1010101 1010001 1010101 10100001 1011001 1010101 10000101 0010111 10010101 1010101 1011101 1010001 0010111 1110100 1010101 1010001 1010101 1011101 0011101 101101 1000111 1010101 1010001 1010101 1110111 1010111 1011101 1110101 0111101 10101001 0110100 10010101 1011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 84
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; of, and, it are repeated.

    The author used the same word was at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of In Arcady;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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