This is an analysis of the poem Summer In Calcutta that begins with:
What is this drink but
The April sun, squeezed...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXddbXefbgXgaXcXefXXdXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011 01011 11100 11110 101111 01111 11101 01110 10111 11111 10010 10110 11100 11101 10111 11101 01010 10101 01001 10101 01011 11110 10111 11010 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 540
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- 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; my, drink are repeated.
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