This is an analysis of the poem Ode To The Spirit Of The Earth In Autumn that begins with:

Fair Mother Earth lay on her back last night,
To gaze her fill on Autumn's sunset skies, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababacacdedeffgffg gaaXeebddbchchffX hfighjgjjjj dadakbbbeebkbgllgdada XXgehXhXhggejmjmEejEj hghghccch ggjgfg fnbbnaoaaXgg aaehhefem mXeeh ffahaaaojaoj jheihehphooqpjqjkbkjbd djrjr jbjbjji hggh crrcccrjccj qrXq bbXcchrhhrjcjcj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,17,11,21,21,9,6,12,9,5,12,22,5,7,4,11,4,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1101110111 0101110111 1101000101 11010101001 01010010101 0101010101 10010010111 0101010111 11011100001 0101011111 0101110101 1111010101 0100010001 110101111 1111110101 0111010101 01010010101 110111011101 1101010 01110011 110011 010101010 1001000101 1101110111 01010101 01010111 01110101 10010111 01010010101 1101111111 11010101 1101011111 11001101 11110111 010111001 11010101001 1111010111 01010010100 0111000111 1001010001 100111 01010100001 0101010101 1101110101 10010001 1101011101 11010101 11111101 1101101 01011111 11010101 110001001 11010111 01010001 01011111 11110101 01010101 01010101 010011111 11010101 01010101 11010101 11010101 11010101 01011111 01110001 110100001 111011110 01110111 01011111 11010001 110111001 01001100 110101111 1101010101 11100101 11100111 1101010101 0100011001 11011101 01010101 01010001 11000101 11010101 01010111 11010011 11010101 111010101 10010101 11011101 0011010111 101101001 100101110 110111001 110110101 1111101101 1111101 010101010101 001110111010101 1010111101011 1 10100011010001 10100010010001 1011101001 01111101 11101111 01010001 01101111 1101010010 1011101 110101010 111101010 11110100 1101010001 11010101 011010101 00100110111 01001111001 1100111011 11001011001 1101101 1011111 011101001 01001101011 010011111 1010010101 0100111101 01001001001 1010010 011101 0100101 1100101 001000010 1101101 011101001 1001011 00101001 11001001 010101 10101 1110101 110101111 010101101 1111101011 11101100 110101 110101 011101 1101010 11101 110001 011111 110101 1111010 11011101 110101 1111010100 111101 1010101 11101101 11110101 00011101 1101001 101001 110101 1001010 1011001 10010010 1111101 1011010110 1010110 100001110 1011111 1010101 01010100 1111 11101 1011 00111 11110001 101010010010 11111110010 1101101 101001101001 11001001001 1111110 01011101001 1111010 1101010 0011001 0100010111 101101110 100111100 0101000101 11010101 01010111 010101000 00100010 100100010 10001001 100111010 11111101 11010101 11010101010 1101010101 10011 100101 0100011 0101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 435
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 209
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; her, some, and, of, she, to, in, they, back, me, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, of, and, they, she, shouting, not are repeated.

    The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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