This is an analysis of the poem All Hallows that begins with:
All on the autumn woods the mist lay white and chill;
And I heard the rising wind come piping down the hill,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbA ccddc cceec bbffbXaabbA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101011111 1110101110101 101110010 1010110 10111 101101111011 1001010101001 1101110 101110 001111 111111000101 11111010111011 0101010 11001110 10111 1100010110101 10100100111001 1101011 1111011 11111 110110010101 110110101101 0101011 1010110 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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