This is an analysis of the poem Summer At Blue Creek, North Carolina that begins with:

There was no water at my grandfather's
when I was a kid and would go for it...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbbcdXXdadacX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 1111011110 1110111110 01110101 101100101 01101101 10101011 0010111 1101110 1111101 111110011 111001111 11011001 01011001 0011101 1100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 518
  • Average number of words per stanza: 102
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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