This is an analysis of the poem The Songs Of Summer that begins with:

The songs of summer are over and past!
The swallow's forsaken the dripping eaves; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbbaCCXAbbaCC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101011011 0100100101 101110101 011101001 1100110101 11110101 0101011011 1110101011 0111001101 0100101101 1100110101 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • 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 the is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word pane at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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