This is an analysis of the poem In August that begins with:

Heat urges secret odors from the grass.
Blunting the edge of silence, crickets shrill....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1101010001 1001010101 1101100111 1101111111 01010010001 0101010101 1001110001 1111111101 1111111111 1101011101 1111011101 1101110101 1001010111 11111101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; by, and, green are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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  • summary of In August;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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