This is an analysis of the poem August that begins with:
This was its promise, held to faithfully:
The early morning sun came in this way...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcdc defe ccec afXf gXcc baba hggg Xaha cibi hXhc XgXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010100 0101011001 0101000101 0101010101 1001010101 0101010111 01111111010 1001010111 11010101110 1011011111 1111110111 0101011111 1101110101 1100111001 0101010111 1010000011 1011010001 1101010101 1101110101 1111000101 1111010101 01001100101 00010010101 1111011111 1001001111 1101000101 1001010001 0100110011 1001110101 1101000100 1111110100 1101111100 1111110101 0101010111 0111110101 1101010101 10010010101 01001000010 0110010101 01000111010 10010010100 11101111010 01001011010 1001111101 10011010110 01000100001 1100010101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, of are repeated.
The author used the same word 'farewell at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of August;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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