This is an analysis of the poem August that begins with:

When my eyes are weeds,
And my lips are petals, spinning...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcaaac cddecXde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111 11111010 10111010 1010101 0010101 11111010 10101110 1010111 10111 11101111 10101011 1111101 1011101 101110010 00101010 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines on is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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