This is an analysis of Approach Of Summer by William Lisle Bowles.

How shall I meet thee, Summer, wont to fill
My heart with gladness, when thy pleasant tide…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbacddcbebeff
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111110101 1101011101 1111010101 1101010101 11011010001 1001010101 0111111101 0101000101 0111011101 1011110101 01001011111 1111111101 1111110101 110111100111
  • 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

the