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

DOWN harvest headlands the fairy host
Of the poppy banners have flashed and fled, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc ababbcbc ababbXbcXbcbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110100101 0010101111 0101101111 011100101 010100111 10000110101 0010100101 00111101101 1110100101 0101100111 0100100101 1011110111 100100101 100101101 110110101 10111101101 110110101 1010100111 011101101 0011100101 101101101 111100101 010101101 00111101101 1111101101 1111110111 111101111 00111101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1342
  • Average number of words per stanza: 238
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Ballad Of Autumn;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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