This is an analysis of the poem Noontide Retreat Of Summer As A Haunt For Meditation that begins with:

Shook sudden from the bosom of the sky,
A thousand shapes, or glide athwart the dusk,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcXdeaXcXfeXXeXeXfebefdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1100010001 0101110101 1101011111 0101000101 1111011110 01110111101 0101110101 1101110101 00110101101 0111111101 1101111101 1101011101 0101010001 110011101 1111100101 0111100101 1101010101 0101011101 11010101010 1101111101 1101101101 1101000111 01001110101 0100011101 1101010101 0101001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1092
  • Average number of words per stanza: 188
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • central theme;
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