This is an analysis of the poem Spring On The Hills that begins with:
Ah, shall I follow, on the hills,
The Spring, as wild wings follow?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababb ccXcc adadX XeXee fgfbg ahXhh Xeaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 00111110 11111101 101010 1001110 01111100 1000010 01110100 0111110 1101010 01001110 10010110 11010110 0101110 111111 01011000 1111110 11110100 0101110 1111110 101011111 0111011 01011111 0111010 1101001 01011100 1101110 01011000 1101010 0101010 11010100 0111110 01010110 1101010 1111110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- 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:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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