This is an analysis of the poem Indian Summer that begins with:
When was the redman's summer?
When the rose... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXXbXcdaefbXffgahbbbfebgbXchefgedagh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010 101 1011011011 10110100101 11010010101 1001011001 1101110101 0101010101 0001010100 1001101 1101 0101011101 1111010101 11111101101 0111110111 1001110101 0101010111 0101010101 01001010101 1101010101 11011001001 0101010101 1101101101 10111101111 1101010111 1111010101 0011001001 1101000101 1101010101 01110 10101 1111010001 1101010101 0101010101 1101110101 11110011111 1011101101 0011111101 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1588
- Average number of words per stanza: 280
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; when is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, or, the, and are repeated.
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- summary of Indian Summer;
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- idea of the verse;
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