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

Air and sky are swathed in gold
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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddeeee eefeef bbghhX iigjjg jjfhXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101 111 1110111 1110111 101 1000101 1010001 101 011100010 0111111 101 10011110 1010101 101 100100010 1011101 0101 11101010 1111101 101 1111101 1011101 111 10111110 1111111 111 0010101 0010101 111 1011101 1110111 101 00101010 1111111 110 10101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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