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

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abcdeefghigfjfhkijlmdmmg X nXgbkaabfjomli X cejcgnhigopidfighc X ggdhgpknbgb X igkpfnkbXagfk X nqibgmgimg X caibiacoin X gikeggianhd X qmXrqqjXknae X Xgaghcagdqrgcng
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,24,1,14,1,18,1,11,1,13,1,10,1,10,1,11,1,12,1,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 0101011111 1101110111 1111010001 0111011001 0101110101 010010100101 0101011101 1100111111 10010100001 1100111001 0101101101 1011010011 0101010101 1001010011 10101010101 1011010101 01000010100 0110010001 1101111111 11011110101 0110111101 11010010101 1001110101 1101110001 1 1110010101 10110111110 1101010001 1010111111 001010100010 1111110111 0111010101 010010101010 0100010011 11001110111 01011111010 0101011011 1110110111 00100101010 1 0101111101 0111110011 0101110101 01010110101 0101011101 0101111101 1101111101 1101101100 010101111010 0111010100 1101010001 1111101100 1001111101 1010000101 01001110100 10101101111 11011100010 1101011001 1 01111001111 01011101101 0101011101 0101010001 1101110101 01110101001 1000100100 10011101101 110010101001 010100111010 1101110001 1 1000010101 1000010011 1111110001 1010110001 10011110010 10011100101 0101010101 1111011110 00110101001 10011100010 1011010011 01000101101 10100100001 1 1111011101 111001011010 10011010011 11110101111 01001110101 0101110111 01111101101 1011010001 0100010101 11010110101 1 010101100101 110100101001 1011001101 1101111101 0101000101 0100100001 01001100011 0101011100 11110100110 0101010101 1 1110011101 0111010111 1101011101 11010101101 01011100101 11001111101 11001011101 1111111001 1001110111 010111101010 1101111001 1 010111010010 10110101101 11010000111 1110110111 1101100010 0011111010110 1101011101 1111110101 1111010111 10111001011 11110101010 1110010011 1 1111011111 0101100101 10011011111 00111010100 01010100100 10110010101 1100010111 1001110101 010011100110 1101010001 1100110101 1101011111 1111100101 01111101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 157
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; in, i, and, you, of, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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  • summary of Autumn Shade;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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