This is an analysis of the poem In Autumn that begins with:
The leaves are many under my feet,
And drift one way.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababa cdcdc dcdcd ababa efefe bdbdb gXgfg edede bhbhb didid
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 011101011 1111 110101011 01000001 111101 01111110 011111 001010101 10010101 1010101 11011101 1011010 01010101 011011010 0111 11011101 1111 11011101 110001 11110001 111100101 110101 11010111 0101001 111010111 11111111 00101 11111111 110111 11010111 11011111 110100 11010011 11001 01111100 11011111 1101 11110101 001101 1111010111 10110110 110111 0010101111 101101 10110011 10110101 111101 11111101 111101111 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; you, your, there are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, kiss, there, and are repeated.
The author used the same words the, i, o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of In Autumn;
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