This is an analysis of the poem After A Tour At The Close Of Autumn that begins with:
Now farewell, summer's fervid sky,
That, while the sun thro' Cancer rides... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaXacdd bebfgcgchh eieibbXbff gagaegeXbb gegecjcjgg ckdkljljaa hbXbkakabbXbcgcdkdkbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110101 11011101 010011101 10011101 11110010101 10110001010 11010101001 1001010101 11010101101 110111110101 110010111 11010111 10110101 10110101 1101111001 1111100101 1111010101 1011000101 1111010101 100111010101 11010101 01010111 11110111 01010101 1101111101 11011100101 11110101100 1101010101 1111010111 100101011101 11110001 1001001011 111111101 110111 1101011001 1011010101 1111010101 1111011110 1111010101 010101110101 11100101 11100101 111101001 101101 0111010111 1101110111 1111110011 110011001001 1101110111 1101111101001 111111001 11001101 110100001 110101 1111110101 010010101001 11010100111 1111000101 10111110101 110101110101 11011101 11010111 11010110 111101 1111110101 1111110101 1101010111 1111010101 11111100111 110101111101 11111101 110011101 11110101 010101 01110101001 11010011111 0101110111 1011110111 11010100101 110111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 427
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; soon, ye, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, how, and, ye, the are repeated.
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