This is an analysis of Spring And Winter by William Shakespeare.

WHEN daisies pied and violets blue,
   And lady-smocks all silver-white,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababCCdEE fXfXCCdEE
  • Stanza lengths: 9,9,
  • Metre: 110111001 11011101 11110101 11011001 011111001 11011111 11 11111101 10000101 11011101 11011101 11011111 11011101 011111001 11011111 11 11111101 10000101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

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