This is an analysis of the poem A Summer’s Day that begins with:

Well, love, so be it as you say,
Just the hours of a summer's day,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aAbbbbXXccddaaddaAbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100111 101000101 111011110 10001110 111111010 001101010 10011111 11000111 11010101 11010101 111111110 110100110 111100111 010011010 111111010 110101110 11111101 101000101 111011110 000111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 720
  • Average number of words per stanza: 140
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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