This is an analysis of the poem Autumn And Winter that begins with:

Three months bade wane and wax the wintering moon
Between two dates of death, while men were fain... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaA aaa aaaA bcXC cbc bcXC dedE ede dedE adaD dadXadaD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,4,4,3,4,4,3,4,4,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11111101001 0111011101 1001011111 1111 1101010111 1101110101 1111011101 1111011101 1101010101 11110111001 1111 01010101010 1111110101 1111010110 0101 1011010101 11010101010 0101110101 01111111110 1001010111 1101011110 0101 1101110111 1111010001 11111101001 1101 11110110101 1111110111 11110101001 1111110101 0101110101 10011010001 1101 01111100101 10011000111 1100111111 0111 11011100001 0110011111 1101010111 1111011101 1111011101 11010100111 0111
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 47
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, one are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word one is repeated.

    The author used the same word one at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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