This is an analysis of the poem The Hot Season that begins with:
THE folks, that on the first of May
Wore winter coats and hose,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXXded Xbfbbcgc ehbhXdid gbgbabfb ihji fdeX efXfgbbb bjbjXbgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,4,4,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 110111 01010101 111101 11110011 111101 11010011 010001 11110101 010101 11011011 011101 11111100 11001001 11010101 110101 01010100 1101110 010111010 0111010 11010101 110101 11111101 10101 11010101 110101 11011111 110101 01111111 010111 01111101 111101 11010111 0101010 01000101 010101 01110111 0100111 11010111 011111 01110001 010101 01010101 010101 11010111 010101 101100101 010101 01010111 010101 11110011 011101 11110100 110101 11011101 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 56
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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