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

From the upland hidden,
Where the hill is sunny...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcXXdc bddabeea fdXgfddg hiijhaaj kllmXXfm Xffjeddj cXdXcddd hccdhmmd kccdkXXd XbbXhlll
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001010 101010 101110 00101 1001100 101010 100110 10111 101110 101010 1011010 001001 0101010 01011010 1001110 011001 1011010 011010 0101010 110001 0101010 100110 101110 10101 101110 101110 101110 00101 101010 101110 101110 10001 0101010 101010 101110 0100111 1000100 1011110 10101010 0010101 111010 101110 111110 10101 101010 001100 1001010 10101 100011 100010 101010 10011 101011 0111111 0010011 111101 0111110 011000 01010010 10101 1001110 001011 101011 10001 011010 001010 111010 111110 101010 101110 101011 01101 101100 111110 101010 10110 101110 1011110 001010 0010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 80
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; light is repeated.

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

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

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

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