This is an analysis of the poem Summer Storm that begins with:

THE hilltop trees are bowing
Under the coming of storm.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXdXdceeeec
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 0111110 1001001 0111110 1101111 01101001 101001110 01000101 01010010 110101 10111001 11101010 11101101 111001011 1000101 10110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 496
  • Average number of words per stanza: 85
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Summer Storm;
  • central theme;
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