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

Windy March weather, with a lone crow flying,
A little ebony airship careening down the blue,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab acac dede XfXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110001110 01010011010101 11101101110 010101001110111 10110001110 1010101110101 1101010101110 010111010011001 1011000101110 1010101010001 01011101111110 010100101111101 101101010110 1010101110111 10001011101010 11011101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; silver, brook, that, and are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of March;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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