This is an analysis of the poem In 1969 that begins with:
Some called it the Summer of Love, & although the clustered,
Motionless leaves that overhung the streets looked the same...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXdeXefXXafbcac dcXdffaageggceXehhah acbcXca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,20,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100100111010 1001100101101 110011101001001 1000011011010 111101101100 01010100010011 001111010000 1101101111010100 11011110110111 01100101001110 11000111011 1010010101101 110111011011 11010110001010 10101101 11011010101011 0101000101010101 01110111010010 11011111010 10110101011101 1101101001001010 110111100100011 1010011011100010 01010011010010 1101111111 11011101010110 110110010001001010 1101111110000101 0101000111001 0110001010110111 10011111110111 01010100101001111 0110110111010011 1010110011110111 1010110111101110 101111111101101 110101110110 10101101011110111 10101110101010 00101011111001010 011001011110 1011010111010101 00100101 110011001010010 101111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 840
- Average number of words per stanza: 154
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; waxwing, cedar, spray, i, of are repeated.
The author used the same word some at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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