This is an analysis of the poem Over The Land Is April that begins with:
OVER the land is April,
Over my heart a rose;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaBaCDBd XaBaCDBdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010 101101 1001110 010101 111111 11101 1001110 111111 1111111 010101 1001110 010101 111111 11101 1001110 1101001 11010001 11101001 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; over, hear are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words over, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines spring is repeated).
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