This is an analysis of the poem To James Russell Lowell that begins with:
THIS is your month, the month of 'perfect days,'
Birds in full song and blossoms all ablaze.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXbbccbb aadXeeXXaaaffggaacceee hhaaddiicc eeXXbbddbbaaddhhiiee bbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,22,10,20,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0011010101 1011110101 10011100101 11001010010100 1001110101 1101110101 11011010101 11111000101 111110111 11110100001 1111110101 1101010101 11010101001 011100111000 0101011101 1101010101 11010100101 11011100110 1011011101 1011010101 1111011001 10001010101 0101000101 1101110111 0101010111 1101000111 11110000101 111111111 1101011111 10010010101 1111011111 1101011101 1101010101 0101100101 1111010101 11110111001 0101110101 01011101001 0111010001 0111011101 1101110101 0101010101 0101000101 0111011101 101111111 0101011111 0101011111 1101010111 1110010101 1101110101 1001011101 1001011111 1001010101 1001111011 1101011101 1110011101 1001010111 01010010101 1011110101 1111010101 0111110111 1101010101 1111111101 0101011111 1011110100 1111011011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, its, of, her, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, or are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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