This is an analysis of the poem Sunday In The Country that begins with:
SUNDAY in the country — that's how we spent the day,
Drinking in the perfume of the fragrant breath of May;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXbb ccddee aaffgg hhhhee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110010111101 1000010010101 1010100011101 10001001110001 100010110001 11000100111111 1100100110101 1011100011010001 001110101110111 1110111010110101 01110101010111 11010101110101 110010111101 1111100011010101 1011101011010111 101000101010101 101000111010101 101000111010101 1100101010111 111110101110101 101010100010101 001011100010101 101010111010101 111010101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 368
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, with, as, we, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
The author used the same word sunday at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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