This is an analysis of the poem On Summer that begins with:
Esteville fire begins to burn;
The auburn fields of harvest rise; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gaga gbgb fafa hdhd hchc XcXc cdcd ghgh Xbaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 100100101 01010101 01010101 11010101 01010101 11010011 11010101 01110101 01110001 11010101 11010101 11010101 11011111 11110101 11110101 11010101 01010101 11010101 10011101 11010101 11010101 110101001 11000101 11010101 01010101 11010101 01010111 11010101 01010001 01011101 01011101 11010101 01010101 11000101 01110101 01000101 10010101 110101001 10110101 110111001 10110101 11010101 11010101 11010101 01010101 01010101 11010101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 59
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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