This is an analysis of the poem Poem In October that begins with:
It was my thirtieth year to heaven
Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXacdebf ghiihibgXc jjgXgkbjbl gddiiibdmb klgiXigieX kalljlbkXX mXjafabfjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111001010 101100101101 101011010 101 01010 010101101111 101010110111 11011 110 001101111 111010010 110100111011 010110110 111 01010 110100100111 111010111101 10010 101 001110101 010010010 110111010010 101010010 100 10110 101101110100 100101110110 00110 111 001101101 1110010010 110011101001 001111010 111 11010 0011100100011 010101100111 11110 111 011010101 010100110 110101101101 101010010 010 11110 111001011001 010101110010 10100 011 101000110 101110100 101111101101 100101011 101 00100 1010011001001 001101101001 10100 101 100101100 111110111 011010101101 100111110 001 011100 101011100101 1010111000101 11111 101 101100110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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