This is an analysis of the poem In May that begins with:
When you and I in the hills went Maying,
You and I in the bright May weather,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabcccX X BXXbdddB XXBaabcccB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,8,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001110 111001110 0111101010 1001001110 11111101 11111111 1011 1111001110 1 1101101110 1101101111 1011001111 1011111110 11111101 11111101 1011 1101101110 1 11001110010 11111111110 00101111010 0111001110 011110101 011111111 1111 11001110010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; in, you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines low, there are repeated).
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