This is an analysis of the poem May that begins with:
There's a bluebird sits on the apple-tree bough,
Singing merrily and gay.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX dede abab bfbf gaga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101011 1010011 110100111 1011111 10100111 111011 101110111 111110 11111001 101111 10100101 110101 10100101 0101101 111110101 1010101 11110101 010111 10111111 10011101 110101111 101111 10110111 0101111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of May;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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