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

Now swarms the village o'er the jovial mead:
The rustic youth, brown with meridian toil,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcabXcabXaXbaaabXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110101001001 01011001001 1011110101 1101010101 1101010111 01010101001 10101011101 1011100101 100001010101 1101011001 0101110101 1101010001 1110010101 1111010101 1101010101 0101110101 0101110101 1001100101 0101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 833
  • Average number of words per stanza: 145
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • 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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  • summary of Summer;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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