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

When the sun shouts and people abound
One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXaXabXbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 101111001 1110010011010 1 1010110001010 11010010101001 10110 0010111010 10110110111 010 11000100101 11110101111010 100111001 0010101011100 10
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 553
  • Average number of words per stanza: 104
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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