This is an analysis of the poem When Summer Comes In Her Glory that begins with:

When summer comes in her glory and brave the whole earth blows,
when colours burn and perfumes impassion the gladden'd air ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababacacdcdc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010010110111 110110101001001 110110111100111 1111101011101 10010111101001 1111100110101001 11111111100101 011011100100101 11101011110101 101001010100111 10101111111101 11111100110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 744
  • Average number of words per stanza: 145
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.

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