This is an analysis of the poem Songs Of The World Unborn that begins with:

Songs of the world unborn
Swelling within me, a shoot from the heart of Spring,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcab dcec effdeXdgdXbdXXXgXgXbXhdijjaXidaghhggege bjjXibcbgcaia
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,39,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 100111 1001101001001 111010101 0101101 1000111 1101111 01010101101 0111011 10101011 11001111101 11010001 1001011 1100100100101 111101111 10100111 1110011101101 010101001 11010110111 01001110010 1100111 00111001 001001100 1010 10100 100101001001 1010010100 1111001 110100100100 1011001001010 111011001010 101001 0101101001 0111001 1001011 10101001 11010101001 1101101 101001 1001110111 11010100001 101101001 1100101 10111001 110101 0111001110010 10111 10001011010 11101 1001010010 10011001001 11010101101 01101010 101001 101001 001010101 0010010101 01001011010 100100100101 01010100101 100100110101 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 543
  • Average number of words per stanza: 95
  • Amount of lines: 61
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; my, and, thou, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words time, who, in are repeated.

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