This is an analysis of Late Spring by Henry Van Dyke.
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Ah, who will tell me, in these leaden days,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bbcbcbbbdededfggfhghighhihaajhhhhX X bkbkabaabddbfbXhbbXlXlccfmmfgg XXghghmdmdbgffbjhjh
- Stanza lengths: 1,34,1,30,19,
- Metre: 1 1101101101 1010101 111101010 0100111 11110101010 0101010101 11010111 010101 01111101 0110111 110101 0101110111 110111 0101000101 11110101 110101 1111010101 110100111 0101010101 100111 11010110011 111101 1110001101 1101000101 1001010101 01011100101 0111010101 11101111101 1001001101 0101010101 1001010111 1011010101 1001111101 10111101110 1 1110010101 1101110101 110111 0101000101 01000011 11111101010 110111 1001010101 11000101010 10001111001 1111010101 0100011101 0101110001 100101 10010101110 01010101 0101110101 1001001 0101000 1101111111 1011110 0111010101 01110100010 110011101010 011001 0101010101 1000100 110101 01001011111 0101110001 1 111101 11111111 11110000101 1101110101 11010111101 0101 10010010011 1111 10010011001 110101 011011 011101 1101110001 1111010101 1101111101 11000011101 1101011111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 84
Repeated words/phrases
and, rain, wait, what
Anaphora
the