This is an analysis of the poem The Departure Of Summer that begins with:

Summer is gone on swallows' wings,
And Earth has buried all her flowers: ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddeaaeeeffaagagaaddccaahXhccccchhiiXXhhjjaadjjdbabaeeaaaaddeefklkebebaaaaggggmhhmnhnnoobbpopoiieelllananbbiieeXaXaheeqqooddccababXnnaeeaaeaaehhrrXgbhbh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 159,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011101 111101010 11010101 110101010 10011101 01011101 10010101 01010101 11000101 11110100 10010101 11010101 01011101 11011101 11011101 010010101 110101110 110111010 1010101 11010001 1111101 101110101 11000101 10101010 11101010 1000101 01010101 11110001 11011111 11010101 11110111 11011101 011101110 10010101 11111110 1010101 01110111 01101101 11011101 01010101 11110101 11010101 11011111 111101111 01010101 11010111 111101101 11110101 00110101 01111101 11010001 11010101 10010101 11011101 110010101 1111011 11000111 11111101 10110101 01110101 010100101 11011101 01011101 010111010 110101010 11101101 10111101 10010111 01110111 10101100 11110100 10110101 11010100 10110101 111000101 111111001 10010001 11110111 01111101 0111101 01010101 10110101 10100111 01111101 010011101 101100111 101011101 01110111 11011101 01110111 10110101 01110101 11010001 10111101 01110101 10111101 01111101 11101101 11011101 011101001 011101001 01110101 110010101 111101001 01011101 11011101 11110111 01010101 01010101 100101111 11110111 110111011 11111101 01011101 11110101 11011111 11111111 01111101 1111010 10001010 1110101 10101110 10110111 11110101 01011001 11110111 11110111 01001101 1111110 1111101 01000101 11000111 01010101 111010010 011100111 010101010 01110001 1111101 01110111 1010011 110011010 01010111 11000101 10101001 00010101 01100101 01000101 01111101 11110101 1111111 01010101 11010001 1011101 01111111 00110001 11101001 11110101 11000101 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5768
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1041
  • Amount of lines: 159
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; as, to, and, no, that, his, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, his, the are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase they connects the lines.

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