This is an analysis of the poem September that begins with:
Now hath the summer reached her golden close,
And, lost amid her corn-fields, bright of soul,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeed fgfgahha aXacciic jcXcibbi adaddeed jfjfeffe jfjffccf gkgklcclXjfjfcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 1101011101 1001000101 11110010001 1111100101 0101010111 11011100111 0101100111 0111010111 1001110001 0111010101 01001110101 1001111101 011010101111 0101011101 0101010101 0100011100 0101001001 010010100101 1010110101 0101110111 10110101011 0100011101 0111000101 10101010111 1011000101 11001110100 0111000101 1011010011 1111010101 1001011010 1011010101 1011101111 11001110111 0101000101 1011100101 1101110101 0111010101 01011011001 0111010101 1101111101 0001011101 1001010101 1001010101 11001011101 01001011101 1101010101 1101010101 0111011101 11111100101 0011010101 1110010101 01110100111 11000010100 11010001001 0111110101 1011110101 100111100111 01001110111 0101010101 1011010100 1101010111 0111010111 1111101100 1011010111 1111010111 1101110101 0101000101 11110101001 1111010101 11011100111 0100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; her, and, of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of September;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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