This is an analysis of the poem Warble Of Lilac-Time that begins with:

WARBLE me now, for joy of Lilac-time,
Sort me, O tongue and lips, for Nature's sake, and sweet life's... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcdcXebccXcXddXfffXbfffXXXgcgXhchicbeaXccica
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011110111 1111111101111 1110111 1010100101110110 100101110010110 1 101011010100010010 1 110101000101 1111010101011100 101 0101010101010 100010111011001 1001001000100011 1101011000110 01010110101101010 01011111110 010011111101111 11001010010101001 001 0101010111010101 1 10110101001110000 100 1110000100101111 111111101101101 1101011011111011 10010111001 01011110101101100 10 10011111011010 10101 00100110001011110100 1 11001011101010111 11 01110101011111 11000101001101100 1011110101111101 0101001010 101101011111111 1111110101011001 111111110101 1101001010111 01011101001 010110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2470
  • Average number of words per stanza: 401
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, o, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, o, my are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines life's, it are repeated).

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