This is an analysis of the poem Midsummer that begins with:
After the May time and after the June time
Rare with blossoms and perfume sweet,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccccddddeaeafgfgebebhdhd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011110011 10101011 100111011 011100101 10111111010 11010101 10111101010 111011001 101111010 11101101 1100101110 1110101 10111011010 0101101111 0111101110 00010101 0111101110 0111011001 1001001010 111011001 0010111110 001011101 1001001110 101100110 1111001010 111101101 101011001010 111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1112
- Average number of words per stanza: 210
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; time, and, my, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, from are repeated.
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- summary of Midsummer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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