This is an analysis of the poem Summer Dawn that begins with:
In the green ether suddenly a star flickers
And in the hospital they smell the morning....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X X X X X X X a b X X X b XXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 001101000110 10011011010 01110010001 110111111 0111000110110 1001111001 01011010010100 1110010101 010101010101 0111101 0110010001010 10101100100 010111001 1110011 11100100 00101101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 42
- Average number of words per stanza: 7
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Summer Dawn;
- central theme;
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- history of its creation;
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