This is an analysis of the poem Summer Lightning that begins with:
Just now, as warm day faded from our sight
Hosts of archangels, fleet... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110011 101101 11011 11110000101 11010110101 111100 0100100 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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