This is an analysis of the poem Leaves Fell that begins with:

A gust roused the waves,
leaves blew into the water,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabBC XbBC XXca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01101 1100010 01011 0111 11010 010111 1110011 0111 11010 01011101 0101011010 10110 01110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; gray, autumn are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gray is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word autumn at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Leaves Fell;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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