This is an analysis of the poem When In The Forenoon Of The Year that begins with:

When in the forenoon of the year
Fresh flowers and leaves fill all the earth,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece dfdf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 100100001 110111101 11110111 1011 01011011 01001111 01011101 1001 11110111 11010001 11010101 1111 11011101 11010111 10011111 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • 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; and is repeated.

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

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

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