This is an analysis of the poem May Miracle that begins with:
On this festive first of May,
Wending wistfully my way...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bcbcdede bfbfgaga gdgdhihiXeaeaagagbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,8,8,19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1010011 1111101 01110101 11010101 10011111 0100111001 11010101 01110000 10111001 01010101 01010101 11110101 00010101 01000011 11111101 01110101 11110011 11110101 01110101 10010001 11000101 10111111 11111101 01010101 11001111 11110101 11111101 11100001 11010101 11011101 01010101 01011101 110101001 01010101 10110101 100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 37
- 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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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