This is an analysis of the poem A Welcome To The Month Of Mary that begins with:

Oh! gladly do we welcome thee,
Fair pleasant month of May;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbc adadeaea afafgggg hihiagcg jhjhkckcXcacakjkj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 110101 11110101 1100101 110101010 011111 010101010 111111 11111101 011101 110110101 010101 1101110110 011101 110101110 110011 11010111 111001 11011110 011011 000111010 010001 010101010 010011 01011101 111101 01011111 110111 11011101 110101 11011101 110101 11011101 111111 10111111 010111 11010101 110101 11011001 011101 11110111 110001 11110101 011101 0111001011 111111 11010101 101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; we, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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