This is an analysis of the poem A Summer Wish that begins with:
Live all thy sweet life through,
Sweet Rose, dew-sprent, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaabbb cdccddd ceccXeX fgffaga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 1111 111101 010001 1101 110111 100101 100101 1101 111111 011101 1101 100111 111101 110001 10010 101011 110111 0101 1111110 010101 111101 1111 010001 111101 1111 111111 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that is repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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