This is an analysis of the poem Summer Dawn. that begins with:

Come with thy feet to the water, and bathe
Thy beauty here in the stream that will not pass!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcccdcdcceecccff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011001011 11010011011 011101111 01011100111 01010100101 110100111 00011100101 011101101 111101101 111111101 1001011101 011001001 101011001 10111111 11010101 0100100101 11111001 11100111 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 774
  • Average number of words per stanza: 155
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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.

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  • summary of Summer Dawn.;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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