This is an analysis of the poem Songs Of The Autumn Days that begins with:
I.
We bore him through the golden land,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbc aaaa cdcd aeae X eded bbbb caca fgfg X ghgh cici jiji bfbf X cgcg bhbh eiei klkl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11110101 110101 01111101 1110101 11010100 011101 01110101 010101 01110111 010101 10010111 110101 11110101 110101 100101001 110101 1 11010111 010011 11110111 110101 0111101 111111 11010101 111111 11010101 011111 11010001 111111 01010101 011101 01010101 010101 1 11010101 110101 11010011 110101 11110101 011111 11111111 110101 01111101 110101 01010101 010001 11111101 110101 11110101 110111 1 101101010 010111 010101010 110111 01010110 0100101 010010101 110101 11010111 0101001 01010001 110101 11110101 111101 11001101 1100001
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words without, the are repeated.
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