This is an analysis of the poem Spring's Bedfellow that begins with:

Spring went about the woods to-day,
The soft-foot winter-thief,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd Xefe fgfg hihi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011010101 011101 11110101 1101101 11111111 111101 11100111 110101 01011001 110101 11110001 111101 11111101 110111 11111111 011101 01111101 110101 110101001 011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, him, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word until is repeated.

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  • summary of Spring's Bedfellow;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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