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

Waked by his warmer ray, the reptile young
Came wing'd abroad; by the light air upborne... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXbcbbbdedfggaXXgcfbdeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10101010101 1101101110 10110101001 1101011101 0101110011 0101110111 1011010101 1101010101 11011101001 1001010101 1101011101 1101110101 11010010111 1101010111 1101110111 00110100101 011111010010 11001011101 0111111101 0111011001 0101010111 1101110101 1101000101 11111100001 01001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1138
  • Average number of words per stanza: 193
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, and are repeated.

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