This is an analysis of the poem Ode On A Fair Spring Morning that begins with:

COME, friend, let us forget
The turmoil of the world a little while,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbabccdd deeffaaaggdhhiidieie jeaakkcecjddffllaaeejjbbeeff biiigkgkeeiaXhhmnaaiiee ffhhffmmhheejjeXaedldlhhgiieoo ffppddaabbheeheqqeff fhhaaffdfdmmhhhhcmXmmm mkmkfiifaamnaXaa cfcfggeecmmiigfgfgdgdffhnmffppiihhXabbaaaaaehehppiiehehii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,20,28,23,30,20,22,16,57,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101 0110010101 110111 0101011 110101 0101110101 1101010101 11010101 1101010111 11010111001 010111010010 1101010 0111011101 1101110101 01010100101 111111 11110010101 1011111101 1101010101 1011011101 011111 110101 1011100101 110101 11010111 1111010101 110011 110010101 11001010001 1111001 1011010111 01010101 1011010101 11111011 01111101 100101 0101010111 0111011101 0101110101 01011100111 100101 1100111111 1111110101 0100101010 010101010 1001011 11010101 01110001001 0101011101 1110111111 11010101001 1111111101 0111010101 10111111 10110101 1101111101 110101100101 111101100 0101011111 110101 1101011101 101111 1111111101 101101 1001010111 1001110001 111101 010101000101 1101110101 1001110101 01010100101 1110110011 1101110101 1101011100 111101 111101 111101 010101 01001110001 010010000101 1110101 1011101 110101 010001 10000101 0010101 1101111111 1101011001 011001 0111001 10010100 01010101 01011101 0110010101 01110011101 1111110110 0101010101 1101010111 1100111 01010001010 0100001 10010111010 1101001 110101 1111010101 101101 111101 0101101101 0101010101 1011011111 1101000101 110101 110011111 1101010001 100110111 01011100 1111010001 0111000101 0101110101 111100111 1101001101 01010010111 0101011111 11000100111 11010100101 0111010111 1101111101 111101 1101110111 0011111101 110111 11111101 01101010101 1001001 01110111 110101 1101100101 01010101001 1101011101 1101111111 10010111 11110110 11110101 110101 100101 1101110101 0101010111 0011010101 1010111010 110101 0101010101 0101110110001 111101 010101 110100 110111 0110101 010101 11010100111 010101 1101001101 0100110101 1001010100 1001010100 0011010111 0100010110 0111011111 011110 111101 0001110001 111111 01011101001 010101 010011 1101010101 0101011101 0101000101 0101010101 100101 11010101011 1011011101 1101100011 01110101001 11110101 10110111 010111 1110011101 11001011 1110010011 1111101011 110111001001 01010111 0111110100 1011011111 11110101 00110101 1011011101 11111111001 0111111111 0110010101 0111110101 1101000101 111101 1101110101 0110111 111101 011111 0101000111 1101010101 110101 110111 011101 11010101011 110101 100101 11010101101 0101011101 1101010101 1101101101 11100011101 0101001 010101 10101111101 1111010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 842
  • Average number of words per stanza: 154
  • Amount of lines: 224
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, still, of, that, no, with, to, from, we, be are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, with, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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