This is an analysis of the poem Dawn In Summer that begins with:
When now no more th' alternate twins are fired,
And Cancer reddens with the solar blaze,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbcXefeafggXabXdbbbbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111111001110 1101000101 10010100001 1101000101 0111011001 1111000101 111010101001 1001010001 1101010101 1101111001 1101010101 0101010101 1101110001 1101010101 1001010101 1101010101 0111110101 11010010100 0101010001 1101011101 1101011101 0101010111 1001010101 0101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1062
- Average number of words per stanza: 184
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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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