This is an analysis of the poem The Summer Sun Shone Round Me that begins with:
THE summer sun shone round me,
The folded valley lay... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa XaXa XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101111 010101 00101110 110101 01110011 111110 10111110 111101 0111110 111111 0100011 11011000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
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.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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