This is an analysis of the poem In March that begins with:

HERE on the wide waste lands,
Take– child–these trembling hands, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXccdcd beebfddaaeegghXggiaahdXhhjjccbbd CckXhhk hccCabbgXabbaacXjj Xjdjdjjdgd flflhihi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,32,7,18,10,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 1101001 11101111 11110100 11001101 00101001 10111011 10101101 100101 101011 0111011 1111001 0001011 01010100100111 1101111 1111101 01111110 1100110 0110101 11100101 1111010 111110 100101 0101100 001010010 01001010 111001101001 0100101 110001 1101 101 11111000 1111 1101 110000110 0101011110 111111001 10111101 111111001 1100111001 01010110 1001 0101 001101 11111011 10111111 1111111 10101101 100101101 1101 1101 1001 01010 101 1011 0011100 10000 111011110 1111101111 111001101 100100101 100101001 101101101 1010101001 10011101 11010110001 011010110 1111100 01001 01110010110 1111001101 101110010 011110 01101 111111110 110101111 1111011011 1111011101 1011110101 101100010001 1111011111 1111011011 1011111111 110111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 88
  • 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; of, or, and, it, had, i, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, shall, had are repeated.

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