This is an analysis of the poem In October that begins with:

Along the waste, a great way off, the pines,
Like tall slim priests of storm, stand up and bar... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaXaa cdcdebeb fafacXcX agagdhdh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101011101 1111011111 01110100111 0101111101 01111111011 0011011100 10110111111 111111 1101011111 0111001100 0111010111 1111000100 10111111010 0111110101 11011101010 111111 1101010101 111100111 1101110111 1111100101 11011111010 1101011100 11001101110 011101 0111110111 1101001101 1001010011 1111110111 11010101110 1101010101 11011101110 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; brown, and, my, what are repeated.

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

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