Sojourning And Wandering by Padraic Colum: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Sojourning And Wandering that begins with:

AUTUMN
A GOOD stay-at-home season is Autumn: then there's...

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabcbc acac ddedf Xggg aegf ghbh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,5,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 001111001011 1001011 10110101101101101 011010110111001 0010010011111001 00111100100111001 01010010101001 101001101100111 011110101011001 01 110101010010 11011111101 1011101111010 1110010001010 0101100101000 1010010111011 010011011010 11111101001 110011010110 101101101101 11101101110100 01001101010 1001101100100 01111001011 1010010010010 111101111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, and are repeated.

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