This is an analysis of the poem May-Day that begins with:

Daughter of Heaven and Earth, coy Spring,
With sudden passion languishing,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcdXedXeffffdgegeXhfhffhhdeeicdibdiid jjkkjjbbbbbfbf afalemfdfdibi mfmiccijjdgdgjjcncnffffdd jbjjb dhdhddjjfffffofcXffcpdddceeecp aeaehihiaccffcdffaafX ffXimfmimddeeiiXpccmm iiddeeddff jjXddXddqqccrrXfddddssjjjjdtXii leddbbdddeddkdgikffccggii edudujjfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,14,13,25,5,30,21,21,10,31,25,22,10,8,9,16,24,33,33,34,23,17,15,35,2,3,62,21,25,8,28,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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1010101 1010101 1010111 1010101 1010110 110101 1100101 111101 110111 10010001 1010111 10010101 110101001 11010100 11011101 11010111 01011101 1111111 10000101 11101 01000101 1010101 1010101 110101001 1010101 11000101 10010001 101001 010011 11110101 110101 11010100 111001 101011 01010101 1000101 00101 110101 101101 110101 1010101 010101 110011 01001101 100101 1110111 010001 1010101 1010111 1010111 010101 11011101 010101 11111001 01000 110101 010111 1000101 1010111 0010111 10010101 1001001001 10011101 10111101 1011101 0011111 00100111 101 110111 111111 1011101 0011101 1110101 00101001 111101 1110111 1110101 10101 00010100 01011101 01010101 10100101 10010101 11010101 1011101 110011100 11010100 110111001 11010111 11010101 10111101 01010001 10011101 11011101 10010001 01000101 1010101 01010101 00010011 10111101 11011111 101101010 110101010 110101010 110111110 11010101 110100001 100101001 11010101 11011101 10010101 01110100 011101001 11010111 11000101 01010101 01000110 111000101 0011111 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  • Amount of stanzas: 31
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 701
  • Average number of words per stanza: 127
  • Amount of lines: 663
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, of, with, in, his, they, each, to, from, on, your, we, it, i, by, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, bring, the, nor, and, now, what, with, they, your, we, knows, only, i, thy are repeated.

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

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