This is an analysis of the poem Come With The Summer Leaves that begins with:

Come with the summer leaves, love, to my grave,
And, if you doubt among the quiet dead,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dbdb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001011011 1011010101 1111110101 11010110111 1001010101 1111010101 1011011101 1111010100 10111101110 1011111111 1101010111 0111101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and is repeated.

    The author used the same word come at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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