This is an analysis of the poem St. Martin's Summer that begins with:
AS swallows turning backward
When half-way o'er the sea,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcb DdXdDdXacCcCc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 1111001 1111010 110101 0111010 110101 1111010 110011 1111110 111111 1111010 110111 1011010 101101 11101010 1110001 11101010 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
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