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

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcddbdcaaeeaXffc X cbeebcgfgfhXiijXhccjcii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,1,23,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1 100010 011100000101 110101 0101010101 11010 01001111101 1101010111 111111 1101010101 0110010101 011011101 010100010001 10010111100 010101 0101100101 10001010001 1 10001 11110100010 0110110101 100001 1110010 0101010001 0111110001 111111 010100001001 1111010101 101101 0101110000 0100010111 110101 10110100101 10001000 10110100110 1111010101 010101 1101010111 000101 1111111001 1111010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 350
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of is repeated.

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