This is an analysis of the poem Immortal Autumn that begins with:
I speak this poem now with grave and level voice
In praise of autumn, of the far-horn-winding fall. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa ab cdeed bccb bddb fccf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,5,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110101011101 010100011101 110101010101 1000101011101 11010001010 1 110101110111 010111011101 110111010011 110100011111 1101010100101 101101101101 111111010101 010100110001 1101000110011 110111110111 010101110111 000101010101 111001011111 110111010111 110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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