This is an analysis of the poem September that begins with:

SEPTEMBER with her brushes dipped in dazzling red and gold
Now comes to paint the valleys and the hills;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccdbbd bebeffghhg ififggjejje
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010001010100111 1101010101 11010101010101 11101010111 1111010 10100010 01010101010101 0101010 00101010 01000111010001 01010101010101 10101010101 1110111010010111 01100010101 1011101 1010101 001010101010001 1010101 1010101 001000110010101 10101111110101 101001011010101 10100111110101 001010100010111 10100001 0011001 101010101010 101 1010101 0010101 001000100110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 456
  • Average number of words per stanza: 84
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and is repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of September;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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