This is an analysis of the poem A Summer Summary that begins with:
Shall I, lying in a grot,
Die because the day is hot?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXccdd eeaXbbXc ccXXffdd aafXggdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110001 1010101 1011101 10101000 0010101 1100101 0001101 1111100 1111101 1110011 1111101 1010101 0010101 1110101 0110010 1111100 1110101 1010111 1110101 1011111 0110111 1110101 0010111 1111000 1110111 1010101 1011101 1011100 0001111 1010000 0111001 1111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; be, it, i are repeated.
The author used the same word shall at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word be at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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