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

It is a sultry day; the sun has drank
The dew that lay upon the morning grass, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefgdhXhhgehgbigfXgdjiXhXjahhghchhhbhhahjah
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0001010111 0111010101 1011000101 1100110101 1111010101 1101010001 100101101101 1001010101 1011010011 1101110101 0101010101 11001111001 0111011011 10010111001 0111001111 10010001010 1101010111 10001101001 00010100111 0101011111 1000011011 1100010001 0111011101 1101010111 10110010001 1111010101 1011001001 1111110101 0101001111 0101011111 1101110111 1101011101 0110010001 110100010001 1101010101 10010010001 1101010111 1001110011 1101010101 0101011011 11000101010 10111010001 1100110101 11000011001 0101110101 0011110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2021
  • Average number of words per stanza: 362
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; its, and, of are repeated.

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