This is an analysis of the poem Indian Summer that begins with:
I HAVE strayed from silent places,
Where the days are dreaming always;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXcdeX XccbdbXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 10111011 11101010 1010101 11101010 10101010 00101011 111 10101011 11111110 11101110 10101001 10111010 10111110 11101111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; her, all, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, lest are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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