This is an analysis of April by Virna Sheard.

April! April! April!
With a mist of green on the trees--…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AbXbXcdc AXbXdebe
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 101010 00101101 1010011101 11001001 1110100 11110101 101011010 10001 101010 10111111 11101010101 111100 111110 11011011 1111110111 111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

april

Anadiplosis

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