This is an analysis of the poem Autumn Love that begins with:

Search. Search. Seek. Seek.
Cold. Cold. Clear. Clear. ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcddedfggfdXgbcXddaXge
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111 1111 101011 110101 1011100 11111 1111111 0110111 11010101 111101 1111 10110011 1010010 0111101 0101111 010101 1001110 11010011 11110100111 11111101 1111011 1111101 100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 694
  • Average number of words per stanza: 123
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, they are repeated.

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  • summary of Autumn Love;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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