This is an analysis of Spring Comes! by Dora Sigerson Shorter.

The little birds, they do not heed nor care.
The ungracious wind, the branches sear and bare,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbXccdXddeebbccbb
  • Stanza lengths: 20,
  • Metre: 0101111111 01001010111 0101000101 1011010111 1011010101 1101110110 1111010101 0101010101 0101111101 0111010100 10011100101 01011000101 1100110101 0101010101 1101110101 0101000101 1101011101 1101110101 1111000101 0111010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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