This is an analysis of the poem Sapphics that begins with:

Clothed in splendour, beautifully sad and silent,
Comes the autumn over the woods and highlands,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd XXef XXcd gfXa agcX bXebXbege
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101001110 10101001110 10111001010 10010 10101001010 1011101111000 11101011110 10010 11111001110 11101011000 101001001110 10010 11101011010 11111011110 10101001011 10011 11101011110 11101001110 11101001110 10100 10101000010 11101011011 10101001110 10010 10110001010 101110110010 11111011110 10110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • 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; and, me are repeated.

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  • summary of Sapphics;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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