This is an analysis of the poem The Autumn that begins with:
How shall I greet thee, Autumn? with loud praise
And joyous song and wild, tumultuous laughter?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaa acbdc d ebfe eXfbc fc gbh ggijk jk hbl hhlmb eme Xl nXXno Xlol j XmjXm aXXag hphhi hmplm Xl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,1,4,5,2,3,5,2,3,5,3,2,5,4,1,5,5,5,5,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1111110011 110111110010 11001 1101100101 0111 1101010100 111110111101 111101101010 0100110101 1111011101 111101 1111011101 11011111010 010111 0111001101 1111 0011111100 1111111111 011101001010 0100010101 1011100101 101101 1101011111 01111111110 110101 1101101111 1111 1100111100 1101111111 0111011011 11100011101 101111 1100111111 01110111110 110111 1111111111 1001 1101010001 0110100001 110011111110 0110011101 0101011101 110101 1111110100 11010111110 11101 0101010111 1100 0011101111 1101100101 01000101100 1001110001 111010101 011111 111110011 1111101110 010101 1001100101 1100 1101101101 11010101001 01110101110 010111110 1001010111 111111 1111010101 111110101110 101101 1101110101 1100 1101010111 1101100111 11110111110 0111011111 0111111101 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 91
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; still, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Autumn;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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