This is an analysis of The Close Of Summer by Madison Julius Cawein.

The melancholy of the woods and plains
When summer nears its close; the drowsy, dim,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaabaabX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0101000111 1101010101 10001000111 0101010111 0101000101 0111010001 1111011101 1011111101 1101100101 10001111001 1101010111 1111010111 1101000101 11110100100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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