This is an analysis of the poem Spring And All that begins with:

By the road to the contagious hospital
under the surge of the blue...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbcd Xc eXcfc ec gafg Xh gh XXXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,5,2,4,2,2,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100010110 1001001 1011000 11011010 101101 101110110 1001010 0100011 10101010 10111010 1010111 0111100 101 10001010 101010 11001110 101001 111101010 010101 101011 01101001 11110101 0101001101 11011000 1010011 11010101 111010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines the is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word leaf at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Spring And All;
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  • history of its creation;
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