This is an analysis of the poem Vacation Time that begins with:
Vacation time! How glad it seemed
When as a boy I sat and dreamed...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeebbccccffgghhaaggee cciiaaccjjccbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 11011111 01111001 11111111 11111101 110000101 11010101 101011101 11111111 01010111 11010101 11000111 11110101 01011101 01111101 11011101 01010101 0100101101 11010111 10110101 11111101 01011101 110001111 11011101 01111001 11110001 10110101 11011101 11110101 01010101 11011101 11010101 11010111 110101101 10011101 11111111 11011101 11110101 01011111 10010101 11110111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 735
- Average number of words per stanza: 148
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that are repeated.
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