This is an analysis of the poem The Heart O' Spring that begins with:
Whiten, oh whiten, O clouds of lawn!
Lily-like clouds that whiten above,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab cbccb dedde eeeeeXabaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101101 101111001 110111101 1101101111 1011101011 11110101 0111101111 11110101 1001011011 1111101111 10010101 1001101001 10010101 100100101 111110111 1111001001 011110111 111110101 11111011 1100111111 010110111 111011101 111110101 001011111 10101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; whiten, like, my, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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