This is an analysis of the poem Silver Wind that begins with:

DO you know how the dream looms? how if summer misses one of us the two of us miss summer-
Summer when the lungs of the earth take a long breath...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110111010101010101110 10101001101110101100101010111111011 101011101001010000110011101010101001010101011 111111001110010010101001100 00100100100001100010010100101001110101010001 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 729
  • Average number of words per stanza: 140
  • Amount of lines: 6
  • Average number of symbols per line: 121 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 23
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, when, for, in, summer are repeated.

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

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