This is an analysis of the poem The Old Men In The Leaf Smoke that begins with:
The old men rake the yards for winter
Burning the autumn-fallen leaves....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXXbXbabaXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101110 10010101 1111011010 01110111 100101101 10010111 10011101 10011001 10111010 01110101 1101110110 100101111 10011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 480
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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