This is an analysis of the poem Evening In Autumn that begins with:

The western sun withdrawn the shorten'd day,
And humid evening, gliding o'er the sky... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcdXecbXdXeaXfdXfdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010101 11010101001 0011100101 0101110101 1101111101 1001011101 0101011101 11011010101 1011000101 1001010101 1101100101 1101110110 0101110101 1001110101 1101011101 1101100101 1011011101 100110001001 11110101001 0111000101 010100100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 956
  • Average number of words per stanza: 159
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word now is repeated.

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