This is an analysis of the poem The First Of May ( A Memory) that begins with:
THE WATERS make a music low:
The river reeds... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd dede dfdX ghgh aiai hdhd efef cjcj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 0101 11000010101 1111 01010111 1111 1110010101 10101 01110111 0111 1101110101 1111 11010101 0111 1111011111 1110 11010001 1101 1111110001 1101 11011101 1101 0111010101 0101 00110101 1111 1101110111 1111 01111101 1011 1101111101 1101 01010011 1111 0100111101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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.
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