This is an analysis of the poem O Maytime Woods! that begins with:
From the idyll 'Wild Thorn and Lily'
O Maytime woods! O Maytime lanes and hours!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcXdebbXXcfXae afafa afafa dgdgdXfbfbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,15,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 001011110 11011101110 1111110111 0101110101 0101011001 1101110101 1100110011 1101010111 1111011111 1100110101 01000100001 0100111101 10010010101 01001010101 01010011111 0111110001 0101110101 1101010101 0100100111 01001000101 1101010101 1101100101 1101000111 0110111101 0101010111 0101010101 0101011101 0111010111 01011001111 0101001111 0101111100 0111010101 0101010101 0101010101 01001010101 1101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and, of, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, of are repeated.
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