Autumnal Nightfall by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Autumnal Nightfall that begins with:

Round Autumn's mouldering urn
Loud mourns the chill and cheerless gale,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba XaaX cddc effe cXdc ghhg ciic jaaj Xiii iaXiXaiia
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101001 11011101 11110101 110101 101100 01111101 11110101 110111 111101 11011101 11010101 110111 010101 00110111 100111001 010101 010101 01010110 110100111 010001 111101 010111001 110010111 110101 011111 01001101 01011111 110101 011101 01110101 10010101 110101 110101 10010101 010101001 101101 110111 01110001 11010100 101100 011101 10111101 011010101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and are repeated.

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

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