This is an analysis of the poem To The Autumn that begins with:
Sweet Sabbath of the year!
While evening lights decay,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece fcfc cbcb aeae gbgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001 110101 11011011 100101 0111010 111101 110111010 011111 011111 110101 11011101 1100111 011101 110101 11100101 110101 111101 010001 01110101 110001 011111 0101101 01110101 010111 011111 0100101 01010001 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
The author used the same word of at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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