This is an analysis of the poem North Wind In October that begins with:

In the golden glade the chestnuts are fallen all;
From the sered boughs of the oak the acorns fall:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcbXc ddd aXaXXeeaddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 001010101101 001010010101 011001010 0111001 1101001010010 011001 01010010101 10010111001011101 0010011101 001010111101 110010010101 10101110 0101001 011101 00101101110 100110110 11000010 100101 11111001 11001101101101 110110111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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