This is an analysis of the poem On Midsummer Night that begins with:
All the poppies in their beds
Nodding crumpled crimson heads;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddddda X eeffaXbbbbXbba X ggXXcchhgXXXXa X ddaaXXggdXXdda g bbXgaaiijjjjja
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011 1010101 1010011 11111001 1010001 1010011 1010001 1010111 0110111 1110101 10010111 11101001 1001 0010 1 10010101 0010001 10010111 0010101 100111110 10111100 0110101 0010101 10101001 1110101 1010111 11100101 111 0010 1 10011111 1010101 100101101 1010111 100101010 101010010 0011101 1110101 1111101 1010100 111010 1111100 100 1010 1 0111101 0010101 11101010 1010011 10100010 11111010 1001101 1010101 1111111 1010100 1010100 1011101 101 1010 1 11111001 10011101 111010 1000111 1010101 0110101 1011101 0110111 1011001 1010111 1011101 01101011 111 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines flight, green, wet, spar are repeated).
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