This is an analysis of the poem A Summer Night that begins with:

HER mist of primroses within her breast
Twilight hath folded up, and o’er the west, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddeeffeeggaahhhhaaaaddccffffccXXXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101100101 1111011101 1010010111 1111010001 1011010101 10010011101 10010010101 11010101001 1101010101 0100110101 1001010111 1101100111 1101101101 0100010001 1011010111 1001000101 0111100101 0100010001 1001010011 01011100111 1101011101 1001010101 0101011111 1101010101 0111010101 1101010001 1101111101 1101110011 1010111101 0101010101 1001010101 1101010001 1111011111 0100110101 1111010101 10001001101 1001001101 1101010111 1011101101 11000110000 010100111010 1111001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1863
  • Average number of words per stanza: 320
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; her, hath, , of, in, and are repeated.

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  • summary of A Summer Night;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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