This is an analysis of the poem The Shepherd's Calendar - October that begins with:
Nature now spreads around in dreary hue
A pall to cover all that summer knew... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeefXddddaabbggccccfXffXaccgghhggeeiiggffffbbffddffeebbccccjjiibbeeeeffkkffccddkkXfbbccbbllaammhhhaaccffbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 115,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011010101 0101011101 1001010101 1101010101 1011111101 11001000101 0111010101 1101100101 0111111111 11110011110 0111000101 1101010110 1101010101 1101000101 11001110011 11001010101 0101011101 11010111001 0111010101 11001110101 10010010001 1101110101 0101010101 0101110101 1001010101 10010110101 1101000101 1001110101 1101011101 1001100101 1100010101 0101010101 1001010101 1100010101 0101110101 1101000101 01010100101 1001110101 1101011101 1111010101 1101101111 0111111101 1101110101 1101010101 10100111101 1101010101 1011011101 0101000101 1101010101 0101011101 1101010111 1001010101 1101011101 1001001111 1101010101 1101011101 11010100001 1101010101 1011010101 1101010110 11000011101 100100100111 10010101001 1101010001 1100011101 0111110101 111010101 0101010101 1101010111 1101010101 1101110001 1101010101 0101010111 1101011101 0101110101 1010010101 0101011101 1101001101 1111110001 1101010101 0101000101 1101010101 0101100101 1011011101 1110111111 1101010001 0101110101 11011011001 0111110101 1011001101 10001110101 11010100101 11011101001 11001110001 011010101 1011111001 10011101101 1001011101 1001110101 10111100101 1011010101 1001010111 0101110101 0111010111 11010010101 101110101 0101010101 1111010001 0011001101 1001111101 1101000101 1101010101 1101110001 1111010101 100110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4909
- Average number of words per stanza: 864
- Amount of lines: 115
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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