This is an analysis of the poem The Spring that begins with:

Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost
Her snow-white robes, and now no more the frost ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeddXXffddffgghh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010111 0111111101 1001111101 0101011101 1011101001 1101010101 0011010101 0101110101 11010010101 01000101001 0101110101 1001000111 1111101111 11010101010 0111011111 0101110101 0111001101 0001110101 0101111101 10101100101 1001100101 1001011111 10010101110 10010011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1042
  • Average number of words per stanza: 193
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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