This is an analysis of the poem Summer Heat that begins with:
Nay, why discuss this summer heat,
Of which vain people tell?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dbdb bebeXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 011101 11010001 011111 01000111 010101 01110101 110101 11010101 110101 11000101 011101 11011101 100101 110001011 110101 11010111 111101 11110101 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
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