This is an analysis of the poem September, 1918 that begins with:

This afternoon was the colour of water falling through sunlight;
The trees glittered with the tumbling of leaves; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbbXbbcXXbabacXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101101001010111 01100010001 011111001101 10101010101011010 1001001 11011011110 0100100110 01001001 1110011 111110101 1100110 1010110001110 1101010000101 011110100 11000111 1111110 1001001011 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 730
  • Average number of words per stanza: 134
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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 is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines leaves is repeated).

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  • summary of September, 1918;
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