This is an analysis of the poem April On Waggon Hill that begins with:

Lad, and can you rest now,
There beneath your hill!... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd Xeeecfcf cdcdcgcg hahacdcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 10111 1111111 101111 1011011 010101 1011011 110101 1101100 0100101 0101010 010101 110111 101101 1011011 010001 1110111 011101 1011011 010101 1100011 110101 0111011 110101 1101110 11111 1111110 010101 11011101 010001 10110101 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, road are repeated.

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

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