This is an analysis of the poem August that begins with:
THERE WERE four apples on the bough,
Half gold half red, that one might know... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbab ccddcd Eeccec ffggfg fXbbfb ggddgd ffccfc aaccac ggggggXEebbeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101 11111111 01110101 01000111 11010111 11011111 01100110 01110111 01010111 01000101 11001111 01110101 10110101 11111111 01110101 01110101 01111111 01010101 01110101 11010110 10110101 11011101 11010101 11110100 00110101 11001100 01000101 11010001 11110101 10011111 11010101 01011101 111010101 01010100 11010101 11110100 111100101 01110001 11011101 010111011 01011101 11110111 11110111 11110101 01011111 01011111 01111111 11010011 01110101 11010111 10110111 11010111 11010111 01010111 10110101 11111111 01110001 01000101 11011110 10010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of, and, felt are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, felt are repeated.
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- summary of August;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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