This is an analysis of the poem My Triumph that begins with:

The autumn-time has come;
On woods that dream of bloom, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb cXdd eeff Xeee ffaa bbgg hheX eehh ccgg ccii ffee bXdd ffff iiee jjkk bbii hhfkXeecc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010111 111101 110101 011101 01010010 0101010 110111 0010101 101101 010100 110111 110100 100110 101101 111101 110100 1101111 1111011 100101 110111 1001010 1001010 1111110 1111010 101101 110111 110111 1101000 1101110 1101110 101101 010001 101101 111111 101101 111101 101101 101101 101101 111101 110111 110101 101101 110101 1001010 1001110 101111 111111 010101101 0101011 011110 1100111 0101110 1001110 100101 100101 0101110 1101010 0101110 1101010 11010010 0101110 110111 110011 101101 110100 110000 110100 1101110 1101110 1111110 1110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, my, o, how, others, hail, i are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, it are repeated).

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