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

I saw a miracle to-day!
Where the September sunshine lay... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeddaaff gghhaadd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010001 10010111 100101010 010101010 11110101 010010101 01011101 00110100 11010001 010011110 01110111 10010101 11110101 10010101 10011101 00010011 110100111 11110101 110101010 11101010 11111111 00110100 01011011 11110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; to, so are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, it are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of An Autumn Violet;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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