Fall by Edward Hirsch: poem analysis

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

Fall, falling, fallen. That's the way the season
Changes its tense in the long-haired maples ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaacdbXXaedfbcXcXcfeecdeXbe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101010 1001001110 1101010111 101110001001010 001001010011 010101110111 100001001010001 111011010001 00100110100010100 10100101010010 1010100011101 10011110010 01100100111011 10001001010101 1011001100110 1011101010110 1010010010010 01010010101110 101111101101 011011010111 101011010100110 01110101001011 101011000101010 1100110011010 1110010001111 1001100100110 10110101001 0001011001110 000101011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1502
  • Average number of words per stanza: 255
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; of, and, us are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Fall;
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