This is an analysis of the poem One Day In Spring.... that begins with:

One day in spring, a woman came
In my lonely woods,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXXbXacdecfXcgdb hfXefhdghh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010101 01101 0010100010 101011100 0101110 100011 110111 11110 011111 1101011 11111101 101111111 10110011 11111111 1101011 11 111101110 011101001001 01010010101 011001101001001 0101111101 0111101 01110011 10011011111 100110110111 10100110101 01111000 1101101 10101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 515
  • Average number of words per stanza: 103
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, i, heart, me, her, to, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, i, the, her are repeated.

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