This is an analysis of the poem April that begins with:
April, pride of woodland ways,
Of glad days, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb dddeed ffghhg hhgaag aaihhi aachhc jjfddf XXaggX ggihhi ddciic bbabba hhehhe aaXddg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 011 1010101 00110101 111 11001101 1010110 111 1010111 1010111 1001 11000101 1010100 1001 1010111 1010111 101 1010111 1011101 001 1010101 1101101 111 1010111 10100110 1010 1010101 1110101 001 1010101 1001101 101 1010111 1010101 011 11010101 0011011 011 0011111 1010111 100 10001101 1011101 110 1010011 1000101 001 11010110 10001111 101 1000101 101100101 111 1110101 1010101 0111 1011011 1010111 101 1011101 1100001 1001 0010111 1010101 101 1010101 0111111 111 1110011 1011101 101 01010111 1110111 011 1001100 10101101 100 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word flora is repeated.
The author used the same word april at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase smiles connects the lines.
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