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

God said, Let there be light, and there was light!
At once the glorious sun, at his command,... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 541,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111011111 11010011001 011000111 1100110110 11100100101 1100011011 1100010010 1001010101 1101000101 01010101110 1111010100 0111000101 1111010011 11000100101 01010101 01 10011101001 1101010101 1100110101 11010110101 1111010101 1011010101 0111101001 1101010101 1011010101 001101001010 1111011001 0101110101 1101110101 1001011111 1111110001 1001010111 10010101111 0101010101 1111010101 1101110101 01010010001 11011100011 10011000101 1001011011 1101100101 0101011001 1011010001 01000010101 1001100111 1111011101 01010111 11 1001010101 1101110101 1111011001 0110011001 11000110001 0101011001 110110010010 11001011101 1100110101 1101010101 0101010111 1001011101 11010100101 1001011101 1101010101 110010010111 0111010100 0111111101 01010101001 1100111111 1111010101 11110011101 1101010101 0111011101 01010100101 11010010111 0101010101 1101111011 11010010011 0101010111 1011010101 1101011101 1111010111 1011010111 1101110101 10111110111 0101110001 1101111111 0101011101 0111010101 0111011111 11110 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  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 22394
  • Average number of words per stanza: 3883
  • Amount of lines: 541
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, of, whose, to, now, still, in, thy, on, what, his, how, as, he, that, nor are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whose, the, of, and, with, he, in, now, that are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines there is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases still, some connect the lines.

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  • summary of The Sylph Of Summer;
  • central theme;
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