This is an analysis of the poem Autumn: A Dirge that begins with:
The warm sun is falling, the bleak wind is wailing,
The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXaCccbBX aXbXaCccbBb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010011010 0111100110110 101 1010011001011 010 11101 001001 011001 1001 00111 1111111010 011010011010 010110010010 101 011011101011 0010 11101 111111 111101 11001 00111 110110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 479
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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