This is an analysis of Earlier Poems : An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
When the warm sun, that brings
Seed-time and harvest, has returned again,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dada eaea aaaa bfbf dgdg hdhd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 101111 1111010101 101010011101 0110001 110101 1101110011 1111010101 010101 001101 0101010011 1100010101 010101 010101 1001011101 1100111101 010100 101111 0101010111 0110010001 110101 110101 00110110101 0101101101 1101001 010001 10111100111 1011110111 110101 1101001 0101011111 1111100101 110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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