This is an analysis of the poem Midsummer that begins with:
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The mellow smell of hollyhocks... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bXbccXcc X ddddddee X ffaggabb X hhXffaii a bbjccjdd a Xgkiikff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01010101 11011111 10010101 010100001 01010011 11010100 01010100 101011001 1 01011111 01000101 10010101 10111101 11010101 11010101 11000101 011100111 1 01010111 100010101 11000111 110100101 100101001 11001101 11110100 10110101 1 11011101 01110001 1101110 10010101 01110111 10010101 01110111 01110101 1 11110101 11010111 01110101 11011001 11001101 01110111 11011001 01010101 1 11110100 11010101 11111101 10100001 10011111 11111001 100011101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 54
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, ee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the are repeated.
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- summary of Midsummer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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