This is an analysis of the poem Katydids And The Moon that begins with:
Summer evenings, when it's warm,
In the yard we sit and swing:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaabcXdXXXeffeffX X ghghhdXgXcceffeffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,1,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 0011111 1010101 10101011 10000101 1010011 1001101 0011101 1111101 1011011 1111111 10011010 1101101 1000111 10011010 1101101 1010111 10111010 1 1111011 1011101 10101001 1010001 1010101 1110111 1001100 1010111 1111101 1111101 1111001 10111110 0111101 1111111 10110010 1110111 1111111 10101110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 371
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; like, to, and, leak, old are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines talk, walk, weak, leak are repeated).
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