This is an analysis of the poem [month Of] October that begins with:
Look, how those steep woods on the mountain's face
Burn, burn against the sunset; now the cold...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba Xcdcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110101 1101011101 0111010111 1011110101 0101111101 1010011101 10011100111 11011100101 1101110100 101111101110 1111010111 11010111110 1111111111 10111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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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