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

SOME summer mornings — when you've taken tea
Too late the night before — perhaps you'll see,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddeeaXcceXffggcchhaacciijjeeffhhkkkkddggbbhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101011101 1101010111 0111111101 1101110101 0100111101 0111000101 1011011101 0101010101 11110001001 01110110111 1101000101 1101111111 1101110111 1011111110 1101011101 1111010001 1101011101 1111010111 0101010101 1111011101 0100110101 11110101001 1101010111 1101011101 01101000001 0101100101 1101110101 1001111101 11010111001 0101011101 1011010101 0101110101 0101010101 1101000101 11011101001 0101100101 1101010101 1111110001 1101010101 0101010101 1001110111 01010100001 1010010011 1101000101 11110100001 1011010101 101111011 11010100001 110111011001 0101010001 010101001 1101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2249
  • Average number of words per stanza: 412
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, here are repeated.

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  • summary of Summer Dawn;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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