This is an analysis of the poem First Day Of Summer that begins with:
Sweetest of all delights are the vainest, merest;
Hours when breath is joy, for the breathing's sake.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcaXXc cddecffe geehgiih ciifciif icccijjc gkklgbbl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100101101010 10110110101 100101011001 110111011010 0100100111010 1111101110 011101001101 010100111110 10011100111 01010101001 001110101101 01010110101 01011010101 010101001001 10110100101 1111010101 1101001100110 01001011111 0101010101 010101101110 100100111010 01011100101 11110010101 110110111010 111111001110 0111011101 110101100101 1000101101001 01010101110 10011101001 01010010101 010100111001 11010010101 11110001101 1111011101 1101110101 01110010101 010010110101 001010101111 10110101111 1111101001110 1100101111001 1010110100101 1010100100110 111001001010010 01110111101 100100111001 1001101101110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 379
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; and, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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