This is an analysis of the poem Love's Calendar that begins with:

The spring may come in her pomp and splendor,
And Summer follow with rain and rose,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbC ababbcbC ababbcbCXbcbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00111001110 110100111 111011010 10110101 10010111 000110101 010100101 11001001101 0100111110 101100101 11101111010 110110101 111001101001 1010101101 1110110101 11001001101 1101101010 010100101 1111001110 010100111 110101111 11011111 100100001 11001001101 110100101 111101111 011101101 11001001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, her are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word say at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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