This is an analysis of the poem If You Were Coming In The Fall, that begins with:
If you were coming in the fall,
I'd brush the summer by... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa Xbbb ccdc dacX Xeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010001 110101 01011101 111101 01111001 110101 110101011 011101 01010001 110111 01011101 001101 01010111 111110 11010101 110100 111100001 010101 01110101 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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