This is an analysis of the poem An Outdoor Reception that begins with:
On these green banks, where falls too soon
The shade of Autumn's afternoon,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXbbbccddbbeeddffggffbbffhhffiieeeejj jjkkfffXeeaajjbb aajjllbbaa jjjmmnnffoo aabbccbbbbbjjjjllpp XmaajjXbddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,16,10,11,19,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 01010101 01110111 01010111 01010110 10111100 01000101 01010100 01010111 11010101 01110101 11010011 11101101 01110001 11010101 10110101 11010101 110110111 01110011 01001101 11111101 010011001 10011101 01010101 11111101 111100100 11111111 11110101 11111100 11000101 11010111 11010100 01110101 11111111 10011101 01110111 00111111 01000111 01010111 11010101 11011101 11110101 01010101 110011101 11111101 01010101 11010101 01111000 11011101 110101001 10011001 11010100 110001101 11010101 11001101 01011100 11010101 010101011 11011101 01011101 01110101 11011101 01101111 11010101 01010111 01010111 11111011 11010101 100010101 11011101 111111001 1010000111 11010001 11101101 110011101 111100110 010101010 11110100 101000101 11101101 01110011 11011011 01100101 11011101 11010110 01110100 11010111 11101101 11011101 11001001 11111111 01011101 11110101 110100101 11111101 00101001 01010101 01010101 11001111 11110101 11010111 11010101 11011101 01011101 10110101 010100101 101110100 010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 622
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, for, from, and are repeated.
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