This is an analysis of the poem (end) Of Summer (1966) that begins with:
I'm tired of murdering children.
Once, long ago today, they wanted to live;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbc bdbd Xeff XeX acX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010010 11010111001 11101101 110100010010011 111010101 10101010100111101 01001010001101 1110010101011 010110101111 111100011 011010101 1100000101110111111 010010 001010 010 111100011 011001 1111 010110 11101 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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