This is an analysis of the poem St. Martin's Summer that begins with:
Though flowers have perished at the touch
Of Frost, the early comer,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eeee bbbb fefX cXcg hihX eXej Xiki fifi fbfb kiki flfl jbeb Xigi kfkf cdcd eieiXkckc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110110101 0101010 11010111 0011010 11010111 11110100 01110101 1111010 11011101 1101011 10011101 0101011 0111001010 0101010 0111110010 0101010 01110101 1101110 011100111 1101010 11010101 0111010 11010111 0110111 01010101 1101110 01010101 1101100 01010101 1100110 01010101 0101110 11010101 0101110 11010101 0101110 11110101 1101010 10110010 1101010 11011101 0101010 11110111 0101010 11110101 0101010 10110101 0101010 11011101 01001010 010010111 1111110 11100110 11001110 01111100 0111010 11011101 0001010 10111101 1101110 11110111 0111110 01000101 0111010 11110111 1101110 11110101 1101010 010000011 1111010 00011101 0111110 11010110 01001110 010100101 1100110
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of St. Martin's Summer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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