This is an analysis of the poem Spring that begins with:

WINTER is past; the heart of Nature warms
Beneath the wrecks of unresisted storms;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaabbccddeeffaaggbbaahhaaaa iiaaff aajfaakkjj eeaaaabbXiccccaaXaajjccaaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,6,10,27,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001010101 0101010001 1011010111 01011100101 1101010101 11001011101 1001010101 1101011111 0101010101 0101010101 01001010101 1011010101 0111010101 10110000101 10110100111 1011010101 1101010111 01011101011 0111000101 10010010101 1011010101 11010100101 0101010101 0101010101 0111010001 1011110101 11011101001 0111011101 110101001001 1101110001 1111010111 1101100101 1001000101 100111101001 0111010101 11010101001 1011010101 01001010101 10011010101 11110100111 01001010111 1111010101 1001010101 0101010001 01010100111 1101000101 11010100101 0101010101 1101010101 1011000101 0111000101 0101110101 01110010101 1001000101 010110101010 1101100101 0101000101 01010000111 01110010101 1101010001 1001010101 1011110101 1111011101 1001110101 1011001001 11010101001 11010001001 1001110101 1101010101 1011011101 1111010101 1011000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 650
  • Average number of words per stanza: 108
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; her, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Spring;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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