This is an analysis of the poem Evening In Summer that begins with:

Confess'd from yonder slow-extinguish'd clouds,
All ether softening, sober Evening takes... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcdedXfXafbebaXXaXecacaefX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010101 11010010101 0101000101 1111110101 1101110101 01010010101 0101010101 0101011101 10010010101 1011010101 11001011101 01001001001 1001010101 0101011001 0101110101 0101010111 01010111001 0101011101 01010010101 0101100101 01010011101 01010101001 10101010001 1111010101 11001110011 1111011101 10101111101 010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1226
  • Average number of words per stanza: 207
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and is repeated.

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