This is an analysis of the poem The Unreturning Spring that begins with:
A leaf on the gray sand--path
Fallen, and fair with rime!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX Xaba bccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110111 101101 01010101 1011101 110111 1100111 10001010 1011111 01110010 11010001 10111001 101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; leaf, days are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words days, for are repeated.
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