This is an analysis of the poem The September Gale that begins with:
I'M not a chicken; I have seen
Full many a chill September, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ededfbfb gfgXXbab XdfdhfcX XiXigfgX fifihici fbabcfaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010111 11001010 11110101 1111010 01011111 1111010 01111111 1111010 01110011 1101110 11010111 01010110 01010101 0111010 01010001 1111010 11011101 1111010 11110101 101010 11011001 1101010 01110101 1111010 010001101 1111010 01110101 1101010 11011101 1101110 11110011 1111110 11010101 0111010 11010110 0101000 10110111 1101010 100010001101 101011100 11110011 1101110 01111101 0111010 11011101 1101110 01101101 1011110 11110100 1101110 11110111 0101010 11111101 0111010 01011101 1111110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, them, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word breeches at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The September Gale;
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