This is an analysis of To Summer by William Blake.

O thou who passest thro' our valleys in
Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXd edXafXe cXXfab
  • Stanza lengths: 6,7,6,
  • Metre: 1111011100 1111110101 11011101110 1101110111 0111111110 01110111001 0111011111 1111010101 1100101001101 1110110101 1101010111 11001110001 1101010001 11111101010 1111010101 1101000101 1111110001 11011101110 1101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 19

Repeated words/phrases

thy, our

Anaphora

our, nor