Earlier Poems : Autumn by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Earlier Poems : Autumn that begins with:

With what a glory comes and goes the year!
The buds of spring, those beautiful harbingers... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcbXXde fbbbbgbXXXXebXbhgbXh eidcbbifa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,20,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101011101 010011100100 0101110101 1101110011 1101010001 1101010110 0101001111 0101000101 0111010101 10010010101 0101010101 1001010101 1011010101 1100110101 1101010101 1101011001 01010111001 1001011111 010101011100 11011101010 1101011111 1011010101 0101010101 1111011101 01011001010 1110110101 01010100111 1100010101 1001010101 1101010111 1110010111 10011100111 1101011111 1101110101 110111110010 1111010111 1101111111 0011010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 554
  • Average number of words per stanza: 100
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and is repeated.

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