This is an analysis of Early Summer by Charles Harpur.

’Tis the early summer season, when the skies are clear and blue;
When wide warm fields are glad with corn as green as ever grew,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaa Xaa
  • Stanza lengths: 6,3,
  • Metre: 101010101011111 11111101111101 1101010100101 101101001101101 10001100111101 1101011010101 1011100101010101 110111001101001 01010011010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 9