This is an analysis of the poem May Day that begins with:
I wish I were to-day on the hill behind the wood,--
My eyes on the brown bog there and the Shannon river,--...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110011010101 1110111101010 010111010101 10101110101010 0111110101 1100100111011001 10011111001 10110100100101 10101010101 101110011010101 11111011111 1001101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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