This is an analysis of the poem Underwater Autumn that begins with:
Now the summer perch flips twice and glides
a lateral fathom at the first cold rain,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcc ddaX eeXXXeabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101011111 01001010111 010101000101 010111011101 100010111 1001011101 010101110101 1101010101 1011111010101 01010101 011100010111 010101010100 11101011101 111101011101 010101010111 110101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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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