This is an analysis of the poem It Is Now The Dewy Season that begins with:

It is now the dewy season,
The season of the happy meetings of love,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXabcacdbdbcaXXbXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00101010 01000101001 0100010 011001 011011 0011 001010 010101 000101 110 110110 0001 01010111 00010 00101 01010101 1101001 0101 0101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 443
  • Average number of words per stanza: 87
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, season are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, to are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase deep connects the lines.

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  • summary of It Is Now The Dewy Season;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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