This is an analysis of the poem Long Island in Late October that begins with:
October's flaming banners, of purple and of gold,
O'er all the bowery woodland, are flauntingly unroll'd;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbccaaddbbdddd bbbbddeeff ggeeaahheeiiiijjXccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010010101 1010100111100100 0010101110101 10111110011101 11011111100111 1101010010101 0100010110101 111101010010111 0101011110101 010010101110101 010101100011101 1000111010100001 1101110010101 010010101110011 11010101010101 11010101100101 0101010110111 0110011110101 111001101111111 01001010110111 010011101110101 11100101010101 111101110101 0101011000101 1101010100101 011101111111 1111011111111 1111111010101 0101110011111 01010101100101 110111010001 110101010111 1101011010101 1101010110101 1111010010101 010011110111 1001111110101 11011101010111 11001001010001 110011010111 0101011110101 1101011110101 1111010111 010100011101101 11011101011101 11111101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 676
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o'er, with, and, i, see, scenes are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
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