This is an analysis of the poem The Native Long that begins with:
There's a thing we love to think of when the summer days are long,
And the summer winds are blowing, and the summer sun is strong,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbCDED ffggCDED XhhiiCDED hhgeCDED jjhhCDED
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,9,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110101010111 101011101010101 101010111110101 101111101010101 1010101 1001100 10111111 1111100 101110101011111 111000101010111 1011101010101010 101010111011101 1010101 1001100 10111111 1111100 1010111010101 11 101010101010111 101111101111111 101101111110101 1010101 1001100 10111111 1111100 101101101011101 111010100111101 1011101100010001 101101101011101 1011111 1001100 10111111 1111100 111111101110101 1010100100100101 11100011010101 101111101011111 1011111 1001100 10111111 1111100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 391
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, when, summer, canada, of, her, ours, all, with, in, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The author used the same word there's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word canada at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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