This is an analysis of the poem To Spring that begins with:
O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down
Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb bcXX dedf Xecf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101011101 1011000101 1101011101 101101101101 01111010100 1011110111 1011010101 1111011011 11001011111 110110111 1111011011 0111111111 1101011101 1110101011 1101010101 1101001111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; thy, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thy is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word thee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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