This is an analysis of the poem Autumn Ballad that begins with:
How mild and fair the day, dear love! and in these garden ways
The lingering dahlias to the sun their hopeless faces raise.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb ccaX bbddXaacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110111101101 010010001110101 01110101110111 101010100010101 01011101110101 11011111010001 10010101010101 11010101011000 01011101111011 001010101011101 01000101010101 01000101110111 11110101010101 010101011100101 01110101110101 11010111111100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
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 word the is repeated.
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