This is an analysis of the poem Now Spring Has Clad The Grove In Green that begins with:
Now spring has clad the grove in green,
And strew'd the lea wi' flowers;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac adadefef dbXbdede bfbfghgh babaXihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101110101 11001110 01010101 01010010 11010101 110001 11110111 010101 01010101 110101 11010101 010101 11111101 110111 11110101 111101 01010101 010111 11010111 110101 111111011 110111 11010101 111101 01001010001 110101 11010101 010101 110111010 0101001 110101010 110111 11110111 110101 111101011 110111 0111010110 110111 01110101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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 is 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 the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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