This is an analysis of the poem Summer that begins with:
And sleeps thy heart when flower and tree
Adorn the summer stillness? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX cdcd efXf dgdg hbhbXcece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111011 0101010 101011101 010 1101110 1100101 1011010 11 0101000101 110101 1011101010 110101 11010101 1101110 11010111 110 1111010 111111 1111010 10 11011011 110011 111101011 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 842
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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