This is an analysis of the poem High Summer that begins with:
Pinks and syringa in the garden closes
And the sweet privet hedge and golden roses....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabB ccbB ddbBXaabB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100001010 10110111010 01100101001 1101001111 0110110110 011101010010 01101101101 1101001111 01110101110 11011111110 110100111000 1101001111 10100110110 0101101111010 1110010101 1101001111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of High Summer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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