This is an analysis of the poem A Storm In Summer that begins with:

Nature that day a woman was in weakness,
A woman in her impotent high wrath.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcadecdfgghijebiedhjbefXech
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10110101010 0100010011 10111001111 1001110011 01011111001 1011010101 1001101101 1011110001 11000101101 1011010101 0011011011 0101011001 1111111101 0100011100 1100011111 1001010001 1001010111 0101011101 10010011001 0101011110 1011110100 101101010001 1100110001 1011101101 1101100111 0111010101 110100010010 1001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1216
  • Average number of words per stanza: 226
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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