This is an analysis of the poem The Autumn Lake that begins with:
O sapphire lake amid autumnal mountains,
With fire of aspens round about you burning,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbX acca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010101010 010010101110 11111101010 0101110 01011101010 01010111010 01011111010 0111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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 word the is repeated.
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