This is an analysis of the poem In July that begins with:
His beauty bore no token,
No sign our gladness shook;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcCd XeXecdcCd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110 111101 0101010 010111 101010010 1011001 1101010 10110 1111111 1111010 110111 1101010 111111 1101110 1101001 1111010 10110 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines calling is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word stay at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase falling connects the lines.
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- summary of In July;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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