This is an analysis of the poem The Pity Of The Leaves that begins with:

Vengeful across the cold November moors,
Loud with ancestral shame there came the bleak ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXbba cdecde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1001010101 1001011101 1111110001 1000110100 0111011101 1101101101 1001110111 1101011111 1110011111 0111110111 1001010111 1111110111 1110100111 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 334
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; old, and are repeated.

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

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