This is an analysis of the poem The Idler’s Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Months. May that begins with:
THE LONDON SEASON
I still love London in the month of May,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a babaaXab XcXcdcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010 1111000101 1111010111 11010100111 0101010101 1101001101 01000110100 0101011101 0111110011 11010001010 0100011101 0101110101 1101011101 1111110111 01010101001 1011111101 111111010010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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