This is an analysis of the poem The Burning Of The Leaves that begins with:
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Now is the time for the burning of the leaves.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbed dcfdgf hfhhgh bXibbi Xgjdhkh gebegX idXdXd bgggdg jlhelhl kmgkmXm gkbkXk XaldbedaffXgkhXkgkhkglgl cddcdgadhghkbebajeXbfb XgghghgggXgfgf aadaadddgddglddl ilbkbXlddgdgddaad afgdfadXefdebd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,6,6,7,6,6,6,7,7,6,24,22,14,16,17,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1 10011010001 110010010101 10010000101 1011101101 011001001011 11011101101 01100101001 10100110101 10010010111 110101001 11100100101 100101100101 10011100101 11010011011 10100111101 10111001011 10100100100101 0111100110111 10101011010001 0100100000110 11001001001001 011001011001 1110110111 100101001001 1 1011011010 101100 1101010001 1001 1001010001 11001 1011010010 1010 1011011100 1001 11010100001 11010 10011010110 0111 1100110001 1001 101100001001 101 01011010 1111 00100110001 1101 0101101101 101001 100110100110 0101 10101010101 0101011100 0101 01000010011 1011 10111111001 1111 0111010111 10010001011 1111 0011110001 1111 101011010 0101 1110000010 10010 011010110 101 1 10101110111 101111 0010110101 1101010111 1101000101 1100010101 010111 1111 110101010101 1001001000 0100010101 01011101101 10101 1111011000 1001000101 1011000101 011101 101111 1110 0101010101 11001010101 101011 110100 1011010101 1110011101 1001111111 0101011101 11001 10110100101 11101010001 0101001111 111101 00010111001 1101 1001101101 0111010011 1111000100 100110 11010100101 0110 1101010101 11000101100 1101000101 1101010101 1101 1 100101 10101011001 1111100111 10110101001 110111 1111101 1011011101 1110110101 1001110000 111101 1011101101 11001010001 0101010101 1111110101 0101010001 0101010101 01001 0111010101 1111110101 010000010101 1011101101 1011110101 110101 1111110101 110111 1111110101 010111 1001001 101001 1111011110 1011000101 10001111101 1101100101 11001 11100011110 10001110001 1111010001 1111010101 1000101 0101110111 10110010101 10110010100 01001110001 1000011101 11110010001 1100110100 1 01101101011011 11001001001101 11001001001001 101101001011111 11111111111101 1001001101001 01001000101001 01001001001001 11101001001001 11101101111001 11011101001001 01001101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 176
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, all, of, as, to, nor, he, burning, they, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, the, who, they are repeated.
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