This is an analysis of the poem October that begins with:
The passionate summer's dead! the sky's aglow
With roseate flushes of matured desire,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXbccddcdcee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 01001010101 010010001010 0111110011 1101000101 11010101010 1101010101 0101000101 0101010101 11110001011 100001000101 1101010011 1111000101 1111010001 0101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 589
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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