This is an analysis of the poem Farewell Frost, Or Welcome Spring that begins with:

Fled are the frosts, and now the fields appear
Reclothed in fresh and verdant diaper;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXbbaXcXaabbddeecc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110101 1000111010 11011101001 1011011000 01111111001 1100010100 0101010101 01001010100 110101101 1010010100 0101110101 1000011100 1111010111 0101111101 1101010101 1101010101 1101110111 1111110111 1001011101 01000010111 0101111101 1001110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 966
  • Average number of words per stanza: 170
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, our are repeated.

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  • summary of Farewell Frost, Or Welcome Spring;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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