This is an analysis of the poem November that begins with:

The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon;
And, if the sun looks through, 'tis with a face... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcc dedeeaXaa afaXfcfcc dgdggcgcc bcXccacaa ahahhahaa fdfddadXa ddddXfdff hdXbdcXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111010111 1001111001 1011111001 1101000101 1111010101 1101000110 1101011111 0111010111 100111011101 0101110101 1011010101 1101010101 1101111101 0111010101 1101110101 1101010110 0111010101 111101110101 0101010111 11011001001 0111010111 1111110010 1101010101 1101011101 1111010101 1111011101 101111111111 11010100101 0101011111 0101010101 1001011101 1001010101 1001010001 1011010101 11001000101 10101011101001 1101010101 01011111001 0111010101 1101010101 10111100001 0101000110 0101011111 1100110101 1101010101001 0101010101 1111000101 10001010001 11110100101 1101101101 1111000101 1101010101 11001110001 010101010101 0111000101 0101010101 01110101001 0101110101 1001010101 11110011101 0101001101 110111011110 110001110101 1101010101 1111110111 110110100101 0111010101 0101000110 11001011101 1001010101 1111110111 100101010001 1101010101 1100010101 1101010010 0101110101 1101110101 1111010101 1101010101 1101111111 111101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 409
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 81
  • 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, to, his are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of November;
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