This is an analysis of the poem A Swinburnian Interlude that begins with:
Short space shall be hereafter
Ere April brings the hour... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbba cdcdeeed fXfbfffb ghghXaah ddddXffd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010 1101010 0101010 0111010 0101010 0101010 0100110 0111110 1001010 111111 1101010 010101 11001010 0101010 1101010 110001 1101010 010101 1101110 110101 1101010 1101010 0101010 11010 1101011 111101 1101011 010101 1011110 0111010 1011110 110101 1101010 111111 1111010 110001 1101010 1100110 1100110 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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 words of, who, nor, and are repeated.
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