This is an analysis of Spring Day by Amy Lowell.
Bath
The day is fresh-washed and fair, and there is a smell of tulips and narcissus…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X ab ccd acdcdea fb g dfhdfaijjdgjb i k fdafbdhlfd eca e jdhm gmeb m ggdffaaddekXaa fj l dXjfXdkf fmfa efaXkk bXfffeib
- Stanza lengths: 1,2,3,7,2,1,13,1,1,10,3,1,4,4,1,14,2,1,8,4,6,8,
- Metre: 1 0101111110010101010 001 01110101110111010 00110111010101010 0011010110011 101011110100010111 1101010010010010010110 101010110110101 00101111111101110 0111010110101011 1101011010100111 1011011100101011 0101110111010110 010101010001 1010 001111010100111 0100101010100111 11011011101111001 111101100010101 1110110011111111 0101010110011011 10110010110100101 01010101001101011 10110101010110001 10101100111100011 011000100101101000110 1011101111110101 010111001001 1 1001011111010110 1011111010110 010111101011001 10101100111110 011011011111100010 101011011101010001 111110101101110101 101001011110101101 11010101111010111 010110101011001010 101 01011101010100100111 011110010010011010 011110010110101010 01001010110001011 10111011101101101 1101101101010011 10001000110111001001 10011001011011 0101101101111010100 100010110101111 1001001011010101011 1010010111 111101 101011101010011 101011101101010 110110111111001 001001010111101 10101000111110 10010110100011 1001011001111001 11010110100111001 0101001110100101011 101001101010101 1001110101010 10100110110101101010 0101010110111001 1111011101101010 01110101110110110 10111000101 111 01101010010010111 010111001101111 11001001010101111 0101100101101111 01111001111000100 1000100100110101 0010101100000101100110 101011101111111 1101001110111011 1110001110101111 0111100001111110 011101011010101010 1101011010010111 01010010100110101011 110101110100010111 111011110101010 101010110101010110 1001 010111111001010001 111101001111101 001101101010110 1101111011110110 110111110011010001 10011111101111 101010110001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 23
- Lines: 100
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, water, wheels, with, her, to, my
Anaphora
the, whoop, i
Epiphora
water