This is an analysis of the poem Autumn Orchards that begins with:

Walled with far azures of the wintering year,
Late autumn on a windless altar burns;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXa cbbc dbXd aeea
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101100001001 1101010101 101100101 0101010101 0111010101 11010001001 01011011101 0101010001 11010011001 100100110110 00110001100 0101111101 11000110011 1111000101 0101010101 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.

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