This is an analysis of the poem Chosen Hour, The that begins with:
Not when the earth, supine,
In sultry summer-shine... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXaaaabbbbXXcc aaddeeffgggg eehddhiijjkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 010101 100101010 100101 0100101 110101 100101 0111110111 001101 0101010101 011001 100100 1101010100 1101100101 1111000101 110101 011101 1111 110001 111111010010 11110101010 11001 010101 1111011111 0101110011 001101000101 111111 1110110 0101010 1111 1100101 010101 1111 1001001 0101010101 111101 0111010101 10010110001 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 470
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words panted, of, the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word not at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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