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

The green elm with the one great bough of gold
Lets leaves into the grass slip, one by one, -- ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXbcbdaedcdbfegfgXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0110011101 1100011111 0111010111 1001101100 1110110111 1101011011 0101011001 0100101110 11001110101 0111110111 10110010111 10010011111 1100110100 0111010111 01010010011 10011011101 1111111001 1000110011 1111100101 10110101010 111101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 929
  • Average number of words per stanza: 175
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • 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; one, and, this are repeated.

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

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