This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lxix: Autumn Idleness that begins with:
This sunlight shames November where he grieves
In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010111 0111101111 0111010101 10010100101 1100010101 0111010111 10101000101 1100010101 1101010101 1111011101 1111110011 110110011001 11111111001 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 634
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; here is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word here is repeated.
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More information about poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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- Analysis of Sonnets Lxxiv: Lxxv:Lxxvi: Old And New Art
- Analysis of Sonnet Lxvii : The Landmark
