This is an analysis of the poem October that begins with:
The blood of wounded love is on your leaves, October,
And in your seaward wind the sigh of love foredone:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXabbA CdcddC beXeXb fgXggf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010111010 1011010101100 11110111001110 011111010100 1100101010101 0101010111010 111101011100 101101010101 110111110111 110111011101 101101011101 111101011100 11010101010100 010111010100 0101010111100 110111110100 110001010110 01010101010100 111111111110 011101010101 1111010111100 111111010101 101111110101 001111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, your are repeated.
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- summary of October;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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