This is an analysis of the poem The Gladness Of Nature that begins with:
Is this a time to be cloudy and sad,
When our mother Nature laughs around; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc dede fcfc gcgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0001001011 111010101 1100111011 1101001001 11101001111 10100101101 0110101101 1010111001 0111100101 11111110111 111100101 111110101 10101011010 10100101101 1011011011010 10100111001 1110111111 1010111001 1010101111 111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, there's, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, and, there's, on are repeated.
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- summary of The Gladness Of Nature;
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