This is an analysis of the poem Extracts From Leon. An Unfinished Poem that begins with:

IT is a summer evening, calm and fair,
A warm, yet freshening glow is in the air; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdeffggddd cchhhXii jjkkll hhaaddcchh mmggnngXff ediiggkkkkiiaaff bbkkggkkhhddXdffoobbbbkkfXdebbggiiff ggkkdXppde ooaahhffddddbbmaqq jjqqii ffjjkkqqdddeqqjjcchhaagXgXcc kkooaamooggXkamffggff kkaabbcc jjjjhhffbbaaiiccoo nnhhffcciinnhhhhrr deffggddkk c
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,8,6,10,10,16,36,10,18,6,28,21,8,18,18,10,26,16,10,9,24,37,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0001010111 01110010001 0101011101 1101110111 0111010101 11100010001 1101000101 0111010100 1101010101 01001110101 0111100101 1001010001 1101110111 11010011101 1111010111 01110101101 0101110101 0101110101 0101010101 11010100101 11011101001 11010111001 110101010101 00111101001 0101000101 01110100101 1101010001 0101010001 0101110101 1011110101 1101110101 1111101101 11110100101 1111011011 0110011111 0101010001 1101011011 11110100101 1101110111 010101010010 11010101110 01001110101 0101000101 1100011001 1101011101 0111010011 1101010100 1101111101 110101010101 1101010110 1101000111 1001001101 10010010101 1110010101 01011101001 1111010101 0101000101 0111000101 1101011101 0100111110 0101011101 1101011101 0101111101 1111001101 1101011101 1111010101 1101010101 1101011101 1111010101 0101110101 0101110100 1101110101 1101000111 0111010111 0111011011 1001110111 11010011101 1111111000 1101110100 1111011101 1111011101 1111111111 1101010001 1101110101 11001011111 1011010101 1111111011 1011111111 1011010101 1110000111 1111001110 01110010111 0101010100 1111010111 01001010101 1110010101 0111010100 1111000101 1011010001 1101010101 100101100101 0101010101 01110100101 1011010111 01010101101 1011011110 0101111100 10110011001 11111101001 0111100101 1101010100 0101011011 0011000101 1001101101 1001000101 0111010101 1011010001 0111010101 0111111101 1101010101 1111010111 1011010001 1111101101 1101110101 1100110101 1101011110 0111110101 1011011111 1111011101 1011001111 1011010011 1111001101 0101010111 0101110111 11011100000 0111111101 01010000101 10011100101 0111010101 1101011101 01110111011 110010010111 1101100001 1111001101 0111111101 1111000111 1101010100 1101011101 1001010001 1111010111 11011100111 1111010101 0111110111 1111010111 1111110111 1100011101 1111110101 1101000101 10110100100 10110101110 11010101010 1111111111 1011010101 1101010101 0101110001 1011010111 0101010101 0111011101 0101111101 1111010110 0111110101 0001110011 11011101001 0111110101 1101010101 1101000101 1111010001 11010100010 1111001111 1111111101 01001010111 01011010100 1101111101 0101010101 1111111111 1111010101 1111010111 1101110101 10110100111 01011100111 1111000101 1110011111 110010101011 1111110001 0111011101 1101010111 1111010111 0111010111 00111100101 0101010111 1101011101 11010110101 1111111111 110101101001 0111010101 1001110101 1101110101 1111010111 01011100101 1111111101 1111000101 1011000101 11010101111 0101010101 1111010101 1111111101 1101010101 1111011011 1101011101 11110101111 0101111101 0101011101 1101110101 1111010101 11001110001 11001110101 0101110111 1101110101 1011110001 0101110100 1011110001 110101011001 11001010101 1101011101 11110100001 11010100101 101100111001 0101110101 1101010101 0101011101 11001111101 11010100101 1111010101 010011100101 1011110101 11001010101 11001011101 01010100101 1101010111 1011010101 1101000101 1101010001 0101010101 0101110101 1011000101 101000100101 11010101001 01010100101 0101010101 0111010111 11010101001 0111010101 1111011101 0101011101 0101011110 0101110001 0101110101 1001110101 01010110101 1101110111 11010011001 0101010101 1101011101 1111010101 1111010101 1111010111 1111010101 1011110101 1101010110 0101110011 1101010101 1011010101 1111000111 1111011101 1101111101 0101010101 1101110101 10011101001 1111010101 1101110001 11010101001 1111010001 11010110101 0111010110 1101010011 0101010111 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0111010111 1101010101 1111110111 11111100001 1101010001 1101010101 1001010100 0101111111 01110100101 1101110101 0101110101 1101010101 1101010101 10110110011 1101110101 0101000101 1111011111 1101010101 0101110101 0101110101 0111010001 1101101111 1101111101 0101000101 1101110101 11110010111 1101110101 11001110101 0111011101 1101010101 01010000101 0101000101 0101110101 11011100101 1111011101 1101000111 1111111101 1111010101 11110010101 1101010101 0111110001 1111000111 1011011101 1101010111 1111010101 1101010111 0101111100 1101010011 10111011001 10010010101 1011010011 1101111101 1101111101 01010010101 1101011101 1011011101 111101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 683
  • Average number of words per stanza: 121
  • Amount of lines: 360
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, that, and, her, now, i, my, how, their, in, of, there, for, hope, his, she, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, to, and, so, 'he, what, that, when, a, or are repeated.

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