This is an analysis of Indian Summer by Katharine Tynan.

This is the sign!
This flooding splendour, golden and hyaline,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaabbccbXddeeffaa
  • Stanza lengths: 18,
  • Metre: 0001 0101010110 0101011111 1101111101 0101010101 1101011100 0001 1101010101 010000100100 1101010100 1001010111 110100001001 0001 01010100101 010101011110 110111001010 010100001001 01111110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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