This is an analysis of A Summer Evening's Meditation by Anna Laetitia Barbauld.

'TIS past! The sultry tyrant of the south
Has spent his short-liv'd rage; more grateful hours…

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  • Stanzas: 10
  • Lines: 123

Repeated words/phrases

one, and, from, of

Anaphora

of, and, to