This is an analysis of the poem October that begins with:
Is it winter again, is it cold again,
didn't Frank just slip on the ice,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc cbd eX fe cac bcf bc Xb Xc d gc dgXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,2,2,3,3,2,2,2,1,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100100101 10111101 101110001110 10011 100101 101010 10110 101001 100110100 010100 1011 10111100110 100110 10101011111 011100110 1011011 11111 10111010011 11101 1101 1111010011 1000111 101111100 100111001 110110 101101 1011010001 0101100
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 67
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word didn't is repeated.
The author used the same words i, didn't at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of October;
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