This is an analysis of the poem Summer And Winter that begins with:

It was a bright and cheerful afternoon,
Towards the end of the sunny month of June,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcXbbbb ccddaaee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101110101 01010010101 1011100001 0101000101 0001010101 1001010100 1101010101 0101011101 0111110011 1011000101 0101011111 0011010101 1000010111 1001110011 0101111111 0111010001 10011101111 0111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 383
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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

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