This is an analysis of To Summer by Francis Joseph Sherman.
Summer! I praise thee, who art glorious!
For now the sudden promise of the Spring…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abacd acbbd efecg ecffX chcdg cdhhg cicXg cXXig cjcca ccjja eieji ejiii jajke Xjkaae
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,6,
- Metre: 1011111100 11010100001 1001010101 111111 111101 0111110100 01011101011 1101 1001111100 110010011101 101101011 111100101110 1001010101 111011 111111 0101011101 1101110011 10010 001100101010 1111110100 1001111101 1101111101 1101111101 010101 111101 1101011111 1101110101 1101 1111011111 1101011111 1111010101 1101010101 11011110001 111100 110011 0101111101 1101011011 1100 0111011101 0101111101 1100010101 1001000101 0111111101 101101 101111 0111111111 11110111111 1111 1111111100 1111010111 01001110111 1011110101 1111110001 101101 101001 0101010101 0011011111 1101 0101010101 0101010111 1111011111 1111111101 0101110101 001111 11101 1111101101 1111111101 1101 1111011100 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 82
Repeated words/phrases
thy
Anaphora
the
