This is an analysis of the poem In September that begins with:

IN wood-hollows mate the swallows,
On the house-tops sparrows marry;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbccaccddeffaaaaafXfffffXggffebbfffeeaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01101010 10111010 10101110 100101110 10101110 10101010 11101010 10001110 00101010 10101110 11101110 10101010 01011110 111010010 11111010 10101010 10111010 11101010 11111110 10111010 10101010 11100110 10111010 10011110 10101010 111001011 10111010 11111110 10111110 10001110 10101010 10111010 10111110 11111110 10111110 10101110 00111010 11101110 10101010 10111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1349
  • Average number of words per stanza: 233
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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