This is an analysis of the poem In The Days Of The Golden Rod that begins with:
Across the meadow in brooding shadow
I walk to drink of the autumn's wine... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbXb cdcdXbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101101011 110100101 0101001010 0111100101 11010100110 110111101 0111001110 110100101 00101001010 110110101 11101001010 110100101 01111011010 110100101 10101001010 00100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word rod at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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