This is an analysis of the poem Magdalen Walks that begins with:

THE little white clouds are racing over the sky,
And the fields are strewn with the gold of the flower of March,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba cddc effe ghhg ijji
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010111101001 10111001001001 01011101101001 11110111001 0100100110100101 010011011010111 011101100111 10010110101 1101101001011001 10101001101010 10101001001010 101001011001 101001101001101 101001011001001 1010011100100101 001011110101001 1011100100111 100100110101 110010100101 0110111101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, 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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  • summary of Magdalen Walks;
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