This is an analysis of the poem A Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershire that begins with:

THE wind has swept from the wide atmosphere
Each vapour that obscured the sunset's ray,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc bbbdee XXfagg Xhfhbd hghgii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111001101 1101010101 11010100101 010101010101 10111100001 1101011001 11110100101 0100011111 1111010101 010001001100 01111011101 1111010111 1110011100 10111100010 10101011101 1001010111101 011100101001 1001010101 0111001100 11001110101 1111010101 101101110101 11000011111 0101010100 11000110101 1100101001 1111111001 101111010101 1101010101 110010100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of A Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershire;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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