This is an analysis of the poem Spring In Town that begins with:
The country ever has a lagging Spring,
Waiting for May to call its violets forth,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeff ggggdd hdhd cc eieiXh dhdhjj klklhh hehemm gmgmeeXjljlee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,4,2,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010101001 10110101001 11010101111 100100101001 0111010111 1111010111 01010101010 11001011101 11110101110 1101010101 1111110101 1111010101 1011101111 10110100101 1001010101 1101010101 111101001110 10011100111 1111110100 1011110101 1111110101 01000110101 100110111001 10111100101 1101110101 1101010011 1101110001 1111111001 110100101010 11000101010 1111110011 1011011111 1101001101 1101010101 1011011101 1011010101 1111111101 01010110001 10111100111 1101110101 1001010101 1111110101 1101110101 11010110001 10111111001 11110110101 010100100101 1111010101 1101010101 0110110101 11100100101 0111010001 11011111001 0111010101 11110100101 1111011101 11110011101 1101000111 1111011101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words for, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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