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

Morning
Her rain-kissed face is fresh as rain,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbcdd X X efefggghiiXbb X b jbjXibibkbkbliliiiii X b iidhhememngngmiibb g a kkeffemmeiiiiiieieXm g m bmmbmieeXfllllf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,1,1,13,1,1,20,1,1,18,1,1,20,1,1,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 01110111 011110111 11011101 1111 0101010111 1010011011 1 100 11011101 11110101 11010111 1100101 10011101 01000111 01111101 11111100 01010111 00010101 001110101 11110100 01011101 1 1 111101 11110 1101101 11100 100101 01010 101101 01010 110101 10110 110101 11110 1101000111 01110 100111 11 10111111 01001111 0100011111 10110100011 1 101 11010111 1111 111101 011010 1111010 1101010101 010111 0011110101 0101001 0101110101 10010101 1011010111 00101010101 1001001 1101010001 11010011101 0101100101 1001110101 1 10 0101 11001 010101101 0101 1101 11010001 01001 00111 110101 10010101 0101 11010001 10011 0101110101 0111010001 1111 11 1011000101 0101011100 1111010101 1 1 1010111 1010111 1010101 1010101 1000111 00111110 1010101 1010101 10111010 1110111 10001010 1111111 1011101 10110010 1010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 103
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; rain, and, that, their, of are repeated.

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

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