This is an analysis of the poem Hope Deferred that begins with:
Summer is come again. The sun is bright,
And the soft wind is breathing. Airy joy...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXdbdb effeggahahiiff iiibibbbccbjjcXjee cXhhbb iieXccakkaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,14,18,6,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010101 1011010101 01000111011 1101011101 1001000101 0101101000 1101011101 0101111011 10110100111 1101011111 1111011101 1101010111 1111110111 1101100111 01001111001 1011010001 1101110111 1001110111 1001010101 0101110111 001101001 01011100001 111101101 0111011111 1111110101 10110011101 10101101010 1011010101 011101110 1101011101 00010010111 1011111101 01111111 11110000100 1111110111 101111 01010101 0110010101 11011101010 0100110101 1111011101 0111110101 1101000101 01001001101 10011010101 10011010011 1001110001 0101110101 1010100111 1001111111 1111011101 01101101 010101 011011101 11011101 111111 11110101 0101010111 11111101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 500
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and, willing, to, of, lord are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
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- summary of Hope Deferred;
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