This is an analysis of the poem November that begins with:
Old November, sere and brown,
Clothes the country, haunts the town, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddaaeeffccgghhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 1010101 1010101 1010101 1000101 10001001 1110101 1011111 1011101 1011101 11101110 10101010 1111111 1111101 1111101 1110101 1011111 1010101 1111111 101110001 1110101 0011101 0111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 775
- Average number of words per stanza: 140
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thanks is repeated.
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