This is an analysis of the poem Whispered Into Afternoon that begins with:

Sun of autumn, thin and shy
And fruit drops off the trees,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXa cXXc bbbb dXXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111 111101 110101 00101011 111010 10111010 1101110 1011010 101101 1010101 101101 1011101 1110111 10110001 10010101 1101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • 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; in is repeated.

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