This is an analysis of the poem Autumn Perspective that begins with:
Now, moving in, cartons on the floor,
the radio playing to bare walls,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcdaXecfafggbXeaaadfeebcb gXbXhdd bgiaba XedhXbgaXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,7,6,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010101 010110011 101110 0010011100 1100101 001110101 100101011101 110001011 111100010 1101110101 11000101 110111 01001110010 110110011 1010011011 01011100111 1111101101 11011111 0011010110 1010101111 10010101 1001111000 11100111 10011001110 1110111 1011111010 1101001111 11111110 011111 1100010101 110101110 010111001 00111010 110100 111010101110 0001010101 011111101 1011110100 111101010 001 01011 0111111101 111100 11110 11010101110 110 10011011001 101101 11101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 360
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, dreaming are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, dreaming are repeated.
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- summary of Autumn Perspective;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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