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

The hillside smokes
With trailing mist around the rosy oaks;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXaaccccddeeffgghhccXbfXbbaaiiccbbbbddjjeeee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111 0101010101 1111 0101000111 0101 1101010101 0101 11010010101 0101 0111010101 0101 0001000101 1001 01011101001 1101 10110011001 01001 1101100101 0111 1101011101 0111 01011100101 01001 1111010101 1111 01010010100 1011 0111000101 0101 1111010101 1101 1101110001 1101 0111110111 1001 0101100111 1001 0101110101 1001 1101100101 1101 1101010101 10101 1001010101 1101 0111011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1412
  • Average number of words per stanza: 264
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.

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