This is an analysis of the poem The Summer I Was Sixteen that begins with:
The turquoise pool rose up to meet us,
its slide a silver afterthought down which...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbX cXcX XXcc bbXb cXac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111011 0101010111 111000001010 101010101001 1010111110 1010101011 1011011110 110011010010 10011010010 1101011100 1100101110 0011111110 101010111010 1110011011 10110111110 100111101011 10011110 10101111010101 0111101001 10111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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.
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