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

The apple blossom from the bough is falling
In sunshine hours, the long young days of summer,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdabab edeXaeaeadaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010001010 011100111010 01010101110 010101010110 01011101010 010110111110 01100101110 11111101110 01110111010 11011111010 10110111010 11110111110 01011101010 11011111110 01110101010 1111110111 11111111110 01110101110 11110101110 11000101110 11111100110 01010101110 11111101110 11011110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 572
  • Average number of words per stanza: 110
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, for, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Spring And Autumn;
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  • history of its creation;
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