This is an analysis of the poem Spring In War Time that begins with:
I feel the Spring far off, far off,
The faint far scent of bud and leaf-- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXaa XbXbb XcXcc bdXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011111 01110111 111011101 00101 11 01110111 10010111 11011101 1101 11 01010001 10011101 11010101 1001 11 10011101 01010111 11010101 1011 11
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; far 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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines grief, fight, graves, death are repeated).
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