This is an analysis of the poem A Calendar Of Sonnets: September that begins with:
O golden month! How high thy gold is heaped!
The yellow birch-leaves shine like bright coins strung ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaaaaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101111101 0101111111 1101010101 01001010101 0101111111 1101011101 0101100111 0111010111 0101110101 1101000101 1101010011 0111110111 11110100101 1011110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 663
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; yellow is repeated.
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