This is an analysis of the poem The Fallen Elm that begins with:
Old elm that murmured in our chimney top
The sweetest anthem autumn ever made... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcccbcdbdbdefedgdgbggbgbhhbbiiffhXhededehhhhbbjjhcbbcgegeiijgjghdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 71,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111001101 0101010101 10010100111 11011110101 1111010101 1101101101 0011000101 1111010011 1011010111 1101110111 01010011010 1111010101 11111100010 0101011101 110011111010 1111010101 1110110101 1101100101 111111001010 1100111110 10011111010 1111011101 0101101101 1111110111 0101110101 1011010111 1101010011 1101110101 1101001111 1111010111 1101011111 1011010101 11011101001 1001010101 1101110101 1101110111 1101011101 1101001100 11001110101 1111110100 11010101010 1101110101 110101010010 11010110101 11010101010 0101011101 11110111010 1111011101 0111111001 1101011101 1101011101 1110010101 0101101001 0101010101 1101010101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 0101110101 1101011101 1101111111 1101110001 1111010101 0101010101 1111111101 0101010101 1111111101 11010001010 111110001 11011001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3147
- Average number of words per stanza: 560
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; thee, thy, and, of, what, in, when are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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