This is an analysis of the poem Easter Day that begins with:
The happiest day of all the year is this
By song and sunshine ushered in,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXcc deedee ceecff gffgaa hgghii jeXjgg hbbXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001010100 11111100 10010001 11001100 10010101 11000101 10110101 01110101 110010101 110010101 11110101 11010001 10110101 001100101 100101001 01010001 01010111 01010001 11010101 01000111 01111101 10110101 11110101 11010101 10010111 01111111 11010101 1111111 11010101 01111101 11010101 010010101 010101010 01010101 11011101 01000101 11110101 11010111 11111111 00010101 01110101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, of, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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